{"product_id":"the-dragon-gate-conspiracy-espionage-war-and-passion-in-1920s-china-hardcover","title":"The Dragon Gate Conspiracy: Espionage, War, and Passion in 1920s China - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. R. Kendall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWuhan, 1926.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil war has reached the Yangtze. A Nationalist army sweeps north out of Canton, warlord regimes crumble ahead of it, and foreign gunboats ride at anchor off the Hankow bund while inside the concessions the great powers watch one another across the river.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Second Lieutenant \u003cstrong\u003eJack Gaines\u003c\/strong\u003e came out to protect American lives and property, not to involve himself in other men's secrets. Then a Japanese businessman who claims to trade in wood oil keeps turning up where he has no business being, and no one in the trade has heard his name. Following that thread leads Jack to the Black Ocean Society, an ultranationalist brotherhood that keeps a spy network across China which the Imperial Japanese Army finds useful and prefers to keep unofficial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It also leads him to \u003cstrong\u003eNatalya Rosenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, an American reporter with a sharp tongue, leftist sympathies, and a past she keeps to herself. Together they begin to pull apart a blackmail conspiracy far larger than it first appears, one that runs through the city's Chinese gangsters, Japanese and Soviet intelligence, and up into the consulates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It turns on the \u003cstrong\u003eDragon Gate Teahouse\u003c\/strong\u003e, a place of silk curtains and whispered bargains, where reputations are bought and men are bent to another power's purposes. As artillery pounds Wuchang across the river and old alliances come apart, Jack and Natalya have to reach the truth before the men protecting it reach them. What draws them together may be the thing that ruins them both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a city where spies bargain with gangsters, neutrality is not safety. It is surrender.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a historical espionage thriller set in a China most Western readers have never encountered. Readers who enjoyed the period accuracy of Patrick O'Brian, the moral unease of Graham Greene, and the sweeping scale of James Clavell will love The Dragon Gate Conspiracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 430\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48626347901149,"sku":"9798994565919","price":60.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/QVIWqC2d0P9798994565919.webp?v=1789779144","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-dragon-gate-conspiracy-espionage-war-and-passion-in-1920s-china-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}