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In Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai.

When a suspicious algorithm embedded in China’s digital infrastructure trips a silent alert across the global intelligence grid, Alex Cárdenas—a retired CIA NOC operative turned private intelligence leader—is thrust back into the shadows he thought he’d escaped. What appears to be a rogue cyber event is, in fact, the opening salvo in a calculated plan to destabilize the world economy, pit superpowers against one another, and ignite a new world order.

Chris Collins is an ex-CIA agent with a history of rogue missions. His enemies took away everything he had, and now it's time to pay. He knows his adversaries will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in their way - including himself. But they move in the shadows, and smoking them out means taking himself to some dark places.

August 1937, the Japanese have invaded northern Shanghai, and a fierce battle rages across the city, but the International Settlement is an island of safety. When an American seaman is found shot on the edge of the urban battleground, mere feet from the boundary, Doug Bainbridge is assigned to investigate for the navy. But what seems a case of foolhardy drunken daredevil sightseeing gone wrong becomes much more sinister when Doug learns it wasn't a Chinese or Japanese military gun that shot Seaman Nick Bonadio. His was no accidental death.

Dan Roy, ex Black Ops legend, is becoming a new legend in the infamous blood fight tournament called Kumite in Hong Kong. He is carving himself a new life, when disaster strikes his loved ones back home. He gets a phone call, and he cannot deny Kimberly Smith's plea for help. Not only is Kim's life endangered, the rumbles of discontent have reached the White House. A devastating secret lurks inside the glamorous night life of Shanghai. Political interests are involved, and soon Dan finds himself in a ruthless and twisted struggle for survival.

Holmes erwacht in der Drachenhöhle von Chiu Chung. Im Wahn taumelt er umher. Er weiß nicht, wie er hierhergekommen ist. Als Lestrade mit seinen Leuten zur Tür hereinstürmt, sieht er den Meisterdetektiv mit einer Waffe in der Hand neben einer Leiche stehen. Noch ahnt keiner der beiden Ermittler, dass sie Teil eines perfiden Spiels sind.

Dusky derring-doer and Korean War jet jockey Lieutenant Rufus "Rocket" Crockett has thwarted a plot to flood America with a new species of heroin. But he has offended a terrifying, irresistible enemy: the Shanghai She-Devil. Her recompense? His flesh, his very soul. In this homage to 1950s pulp, our hero battles gangsters on the streets of Harlem, assassins in the High Sierras, and MiGs in the skies over the South China Sea toward his showdown with an ancient evil!