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The Wardens of Punyu

Name: The Wardens of Punyu
Rating: 4.10 (60 reviews)
Author: D.L. Kung

D.L. Kung

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NEWLY RE-EDITED VERSION, (including updated acknowledgements)
THANKS,
EYES & EARS EDITIONS
JULY 1, 2012

American journalist Claire Raymond is caught in the undertow of China’s emergence to regional dominance at the close of the 20th century.

Vol I– The Wardens of Punyu:
Claire Raymond’s naive new Business World colleague disappears without trace across the Hong Kong-China border on assignment in one of the mainland’s new “special economic zones.” Claire’s futile search to rescue him leads her through the free-for-all landscape of Guangdong’s coastal export boom into the murky use of Communist prison labor camps to feed its illegal organ transplant trade. With only one more year to go before Beijing reclaims control of the British colony, China’s transition to power already reveals its dark and lawless side. And Claire’s career as a China hand may be reaching a crossroad now that she has met the dashing Swiss UN delegate Xavier Vonallp on assignment from Geneva to set up operations based in Hong Kong.

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