Six Days in Kashgar

<p>Kashgar; the Silk Road city on the edge of the merciless Taklamakan desert. </p><p>When a bowl of peanuts tumbles from a market stall on a Kashgar side street nobody could imagine that it will reverberate around the world.</p><p>Ismail's little brother is arrested by the Chinese authorities. As the elder boy of a fatherless Uyghur family young Ismail knows that he must somehow act to save him. He and his rag-tag gang of friends devise a daring plan armed only with a few rusty rifles a truck - and two borrowed camels.</p><p>What he doesn't foresee is that his actions will ultimately involve an American senator a Chinese general a ruthless terrorist group British Intelligence the President of the United States the might of the American Seventh Fleet - and a courtesan called See Wing.</p><p>Ismail is a good boy. He certainly never meant to hold half the world to ransom.</p><p><br></p>