From Carl Hiaasen and the distinguished foreign correspondent Bill Montalbano comes a relentless novel of treachery and murder set in the clenched society of China, where even tomorrow s weather is a state secret.
David Wang, a Chinese-American art historian, dies shortly after a visit to an ancient tomb housing priceless artifacts. Officials diagnose death by duck, a fatal confluence of culture shock and rich cuisine. But Wang s friend Tom Stratton suspects something more sinister, especially after the dead man s brother, a highly placed Party official, tries to have him kidnapped. From...

A shadowy operator decides to put a lock on South Florida's cocaine trade, and Miami is suddenly transformed into a war zone as bloodily anarchic as Beirut. Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend die in the crossfire. He has the worse luck, to see the face of her murderers.

From the bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Razor Girl and Bill Montalbano comes this compelling thriller set in Key West on the southern most end of America.
With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler s paradise. All that s needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and he s in no mood to become the Machine s delivery boy. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts out by taking away Albury s livelihood. Then it robs him of his...