THIS BOOK IS FOR DAVID THOMPSON AND BILL REINKAMISS YA, FELLAS!
CONTENTS
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Also by S. J. Rozan
Copyright
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Steve Axelrod, my agent
Keith Kahla, my editor
Dr. Qian Zhijian
Xin Song
Reed Farrel Coleman, Nancy Ennis, Ed Lin, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, Keith Snyder, Joseph Wallace
Steven Blier, Hillary Brown, Belmont Freeman, Max Rudin, James Russell, Amy Schatz
Betsy Harding, Royal Huber, Tom Savage
The Museum of Chinese in America
Liu Xiaobo and Ai Weiwei
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In a relentlessly chic and tranquil tea shop on the Lower East Side, I sat sipping gunpowder green and trying to figure out what my new client was up to. That the client, Jeff Dunbar, sat across the table laying out the case he was hiring me for, helped not at all.
“It’s about art,” he’d begun, stirring sugar into his straight-ahead American coffee after the pleased-to-meet- yous were over.
“Art?” I’d tried to sound intrigued, as opposed to baffled, by this revelation. Dunbar had called the day before, saying he needed an investigator and had seen my Web site. I’d expected, when we met on this chilly, bright spring
