The White Mandarin

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A CIA double agent holds the fate of Chinaand the worldin his hands in this gripping spy thriller from the author of The Man Who Loved Mata Hari.

John Polly enters Shanghai in 1948 on a muggy, velvet evening, just in time for the Communist takeover of China. It marks only his fourth month in Americas newly formed Central Intelligence Agency. Over the next two decades, Polly will becomeThe White MandarinOnly pages into this stunning novel, readers will easily understand why Sherman has earned comparison to the great John le Carr and Graham Greene. It is both a story of very personal love and loss, and an insightful history of China between the rise of Chairman Mao and the 1972 visit by President Nixon. Anyone looking to understand the China of yesterday and todayits power, its flaws, its beautyneed look no further thanThe White Mandarin.

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Dan Sherman has written a handful of popular thrillers, starting with such nearcontemporary successes as The White Mandarin (1982, set in China from 1949 through the 1960s) and The Prince of Berlin (1983, starting at the end of World War II and continuing on into the 1960s) and then moving backward through history to the era of World War I (The Man Who Loved Mata Hari, 1985) and then to the period of the American Revolution (The Traitor, 1987), about the discovery of a mole within the highest command levels of George Washingtons army of revolution. His other novels include The Mole, Riddle, Swann, and King Jaguar.