The Jade Dragon

<p><strong><em>An old friend murdered. The police won't investigate so it falls to Doug Bainbridge to find justice for Tim... if mobsters communist insurgents or Japanese spies don't get him first. </em></strong></p><p>In 1935 Shanghai is the place to be. Glittering nightlife bustling business and a diverse international community are just some of the appeals of the Paris of the Orient. Douglas Bainbridge Office of Naval Intelligence is beginning a two-year immersion in Shanghai when he runs into Tim McIntyre a childhood friend from San Francisco. Tim is a reporter writing for the Shanghai office of the Associated Press and he offers to show Doug the local nightlife.</p><p>Enjoying a show at the Jade Dragon Tim never returns from intermission and Doug finds Tim's body in an alley. The local police dismiss it as a robbery gone bad but Doug knows there was more to it. Bystanders saw Tim arguing with a pair of men before walking away with them. Doug finds files in Tim's office about Japanese infiltration of a Korean resistance group; and the notorious Green Gang that controls the opium trade in China and has deep ties to General Chiang Kai-Shek himself. Tim's friend and fellow reporter Art Jonesy Jones goads Doug into solving Tim's murder. But in Shanghai danger lurks around every dark corner.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The Jade Dragon</em> will take you on a journey to old Shanghai where danger excitement and romance exist side by side. </strong><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Jade Dragon</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an exciting upmarket mystery with crossover appeal to fans of spy fiction and gay & lesbian fiction. </span></p>