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China's richest businessman, Ju-Long Lew, can afford anything in the world. But he only wants things that are beyond his grasp, namely beautiful women.Thousands of miles away, Jessi Miller, a TV anchorwoman, seems to have everything: success, money and good looks. But she doesn't have someone to love.Jessi travels to China with the hope that she'll find a baby to adopt and call her own. She knows that with a little one in her life, she won't feel so empty and that happiness will finally be hers.But shortly after arriving in China, Jessi disappears. Her friends and family don't know what happened, but they know who to turn to for help. Heath Rosary, a former Secret Service agent turned private investigator, travels to China to find the truth.As he tries to track down Jessi, Rosary faces one obstacle after another, as he attempts to find answers in an exotic land where people are secretive and speak a language he doesn't understand. Join Rosary in Black Dragon as he tries to solve a case that leads him thousands of miles away, in directions he never would have believed possible....
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In the shadow of the fallen Old Man of the Mountain, on a lonely stretch of mountain road, two men lay dead. A spasm of violence that took only a few minutes to play out leaves a community divided and searching for answers.
Bad Blood is the riveting account of the long-standing feud between Franconia, New Hampshire, police officer Bruce McKay, 48, and Liko Kenney, 24. In May 2007, Kenney shot and killed Officer McKay, following a dramatic chase that began with a routine traffic stop. Kenney, cousin of ski legend Bode Miller, was then shot and killed by a shadowy passerby. Almost immediately, the tragic incident revealed deep tensions within this otherwise quiet community in the White Mountains with charges that Kenney was a hell-raiser and mentally unstable and counter-charges that Officer McKay was a rogue cop who dispensed justice as a way to settle personal scores. Striving to get at the truth of the story, the author uncovers a complicated mix of personalities and motivations. Local and statewide interests clash while regional and national media-- and even YouTube viewers-- supply ready stereotypes to fit their agendas. Amid larger questions of the meaning of individual freedom we are, ultimately, helpless witnesses to an inevitable clash of characters....
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