The Last Mandarin

Novelist Penny and journalist Fung collaborate on a terrifyingly plausible political thriller in which a high stakes conflict between the U.S. and China brings the world to the brink of disaster. In the story’s opening, every security and fire alarm around the world sounds—a nuisance, and a frightening one, but no real harm is done. But as the attacks escalate, the U.S. suspects China is behind them, and the president taps an unlikely pair to investigate: a Chinese-born human rights activist and her estranged food blogger daughter Alice, who has a personal connection to the attacks. The stakes are both personal and political for the duo as they race to save the world. For fans of Penny and Hillary Clinton’s State of Terror and Adam Brookes’s Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City.