House of the Seven Courts — Dorothy Daniels

LOIS BEAUMONT, M.D., YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL, TERRIFIED.

She had a job to do, but she didn't know what it was. She knew only that a super-hush-hush government agency had asked her to sacrifice her friends, her reputation, her professional standing -- and perhaps her life -- and to ask no questions.

And now, under orders, she was in Hong Kong, the gateway to the Bamboo Curtain. There were watchers everywhere; she could make no move unobserved. But were the watchers on her side or that of Red China? And who was the sinister patient she knew she had to treat and investigate? Was he what he seemed ... or was he the chosen successor to Mao Tse-tung himself?...