China White, Peter Maas
China White, Peter Maas
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China White

Author: Peter Maas

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/18/2011


Synopsis

In the 1970s, Peter Maas stunned the American public with Serpico. Now this best-selling author has created a brilliant fictional thriller that uncovers a new underworld of international crime-ruled by the Chinese. Y.K. Deng, the ruthless mastermind of an international heroin ring, is poised to shatter the Mafia with a daring maneuver: transfer all of the assets his crime syndicate's to the United States in one shipment of pure heroin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Felisa on May 11, 2013

One of those books where the author clearly lost interest in the boring protagonists(principled lawyer and plucky Irish-American FBI agent/former nun)and focused all his energy on the antagonists, Chinese heroin lords. All you ever really know about the lawyer is that he's an everyman because he dri......more

Goodreads review by Goodread_ton on July 19, 2020

While the theme and plot are interesting, the actions taken by the protagonist are often times unbelievable. Add to that an unlikely manner in which the book ends, I would say this book is not Peter Maas at his best.......more

Goodreads review by Neil on December 17, 2024

Currently cleaning out my collection, and looking back on books I read long ago. Read this when it came out and remembered liking it enough at the time, but rereading it, not only is it very dated, it is so in a way that reflects on the shallowness of the 90s. It feels more like a treatise on the Tr......more

Goodreads review by Bob on May 11, 2021

Read in 1997. A fact-based and fast moving thriller about Chinese drug smuggling.......more

Goodreads review by Lior on July 17, 2022

Would enjoy as a movie or mini series......more