Maiden Shanghai

Businesswomen in China get even less respect than they do in the US.

Katarina Minola doesnt like it.

When Kate discovers someone stealing power from her firms Xinjiang Province NAP site in Chinas and disrupting Chinas military communications, Kates father Bennie and his old Army buddy Luca, who started the Shanghai company together with Kates Uncle Mike, decide to bring in Lucas son, Pete, to help solve the problem. Kate doesnt like that either.

Kate and Pete are two halves of a critical mass. As Kate wrestles Petes Bull-In-A-Chinatown personality through Chinese social and business customs, Pete wrestles with Kates problem. Kates two new clients are even stranger than her NAP site problems.

Set in Shanghai and Xinjiang Province, the novel weaves the very real possibilities of a plot to control Chinas future based on the knotty relationships of duty and business that bind Chinas social and business worlds.