The Control Center (Book 1)

<p>A #1 Best Seller</p><p>A chance meeting one night in Shanghai introduces American banker Jack Gold to an Israeli man named Ari who Jack feels an immediate kinship with. Ari has a stunning proposition: Help Israel and the United States infiltrate China's heavily guarded Control Center and address the nation with the truth they deserve to hear. </p><p>China a country of 1.4 billion citizens is an existential threat to itself and the rest of the world. With its news and media censored through the Control Center before being broadcast to viewers the people of China have no hope of realizing their government is only looking to enrich and reward its most prominent leaders. Jack has called China his home for years now though his optimism about China's economy opening up has faded as the years have passed and nothing has changed. His professional life is stalled; his love life is nonexistent. But Jack sees the endless potential China and its citizens could possess if only they had free access to information. But getting into the Control Center is not going to be easy.</p><p>Written by Brad Good who started living and working in the People's Republic of China in 1988 THE CHINA AFFAIRS is a series of four novels that take place in China. Good brings rare on-the-ground knowledge of contemporary Chinese political social and cultural issues and associated international affairs.</p><p>Jack Gold is an American in China who is recruited by an Israeli agent to penetrate the Control Center China's broadcasting hub. (Book 1) Next at great personal threat China and the United States solicit his leadership in creating a new trade deal between the countries. (Book 2) Jack is then recruited by the President of China with the use of artificial intelligence to transform China and the lives of its citizens. (Book 3) After China elects a new president who returns the country to Communism the President of the United States calls on Jack to lead a dangerous plan to fight back. (Book 4)</p>