Rock, Paper, Tiger

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"Finally a Western writer has taken China's domestically bestselling genre of wild, --louche-life youth and re-imagined it as a highly original expat thriller. It's a wild ride—but don't turn the pages too fast. Brackmann's evocation of China, funny, frustrating, frightening, sometimes tender, and always real, is worth savoring.". —Nicole Mones, author of Lost in Translation and The Last Chinese Chef
"Rock Paper Tiger is a splendid debut novel by a. gifted new writer. Her Chinese setting is exotic and chilling, and the characters live and breathe. The story is smart and fast as a sports car. Keep an eye on Brackmann." —T. Jefferson Parker, author of Iron JRiVer
"A terrifying odyssey in present-day China A totally captivating page-turner . with vivid, first-hand details and nuanced multi-cultural facets." . / Qiu Xiaolong, author of The Mao dase
"Few writers would be up to the challerige of blending the worlds of urban China, , Iraq, and a virtual online kingdom—but Lisa... Tovább

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"Finally a Western writer has taken China's domestically bestselling genre of wild, --louche-life youth and re-imagined it as a highly original expat thriller. It's a wild ride—but don't turn the pages too fast. Brackmann's evocation of China, funny, frustrating, frightening, sometimes tender, and always real, is worth savoring.". —Nicole Mones, author of Lost in Translation and The Last Chinese Chef
"Rock Paper Tiger is a splendid debut novel by a. gifted new writer. Her Chinese setting is exotic and chilling, and the characters live and breathe. The story is smart and fast as a sports car. Keep an eye on Brackmann." —T. Jefferson Parker, author of Iron JRiVer
"A terrifying odyssey in present-day China A totally captivating page-turner . with vivid, first-hand details and nuanced multi-cultural facets." . / Qiu Xiaolong, author of The Mao dase
"Few writers would be up to the challerige of blending the worlds of urban China, , Iraq, and a virtual online kingdom—but Lisa Brackmann wildly succeeds. Prepare to taste the smogs smell the noodles, and rub the Beijing dust between your fingers.'flock Paper Tiger is a fresh and vigorous work that vividly captures i , the roller coaster that is life in modern China."
. —Eliot Pattison, author of the Edgar® Award-winning novel The Skull Mantra
"Lisa Brackmann's Rock Paper Tiger is a compelling debut that takes you deep into the dangerous, complicated heart of modern China, with a tough and appealing heroine in Ellie." —Jeff Abbott, author of Trust Me

American Iraq War veteran Ellie. Cooper is down and out in Beijing. Her husband, whom she followed to China, has left her, and she's still suffering from a massive leg injury and from PTSD. Once her divorce goes through,-she'll have no way 6f getting her visa renewed, but she doesn't want to gp" home. She,'s made friends in China. One in particular, an artist known as Lao Zhang, is something more than'a'friend. ¦
~ Then one day a chance encounter /with a Uighiir-r-a member of a Cljinese Muslim minority—at Lao Zhang's house turns her life' upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are'^liounding her for information. They say the Uighur is. a teitrorist. All Ellie knows is that she doesn't want to endanger Lao Zhang. As she tries to elude her pursuers, she's hauntedby memories of Iraq. Is what she • did and saw there the cause of the mess she's in now? Her options dwindlingf, she is contacted through an online-role-' playing game by a group claiming to be friends of Lao Zhang, asking for help. With no other clues, iEllie does the only thing she can—keeps playing. Vissza