China Adventure

his is book nine in the John Peters series and this takes John and the rest of the group of friends and fellow adventurers known as the "Oxford Group" to Alaska to confront a new danger both to the earth and to themselves. Once more they take on evil forces in both nature and humanity.

A period adventure book set in the East during the early 20th century."The Ship from China" chronicles the harrowing and transformative adventures of Grenville and Elaine, beginning with a journey that quickly turns perilous and evolves into a saga of survival, love, and redemption. Embark on a Thrilling JourneyThe story opens in London, where Sidney Grenville's friend, Fenton, persuades him to travel to China to accompany Fenton's fiancée, Elaine, back home. Despite harboring skepticism and cynicism over venturing on such a mission, Grenville accepts, hoping for some respite and adventure...

Promising and undeniably engrossing novels… Mann knows how to deliver an espionage story. —Kirkus Review Like the best of Le Carré with a pinch of Follett, but with a much greater understanding of the real world than either of ‘em! Complex and nuanced. —Chris Garcia, Hugo award-winning editor, author, critic, and curator of Forever Saroyan, LLC Many enjoyable intrigues in this series are factually based, offering insights into a world of deception and buried truths. What lies at the center of so many lies and so much conflict in today’s world? After investigations around the ...

This is a novel based on the true story of a U.S. Marine Officer in the Pacific Islands and China in World War II and afterward. He built the bridge to Naha in the Battle for Okinawa and then was sent to China. In the midst of war with Japan and the civil war between the nationalists and communist Chinese, this marine engineer and his men built the longest bridge built in World War II over the Tang Ho River in China. This time period in China is full of history both from the past and in the present. China Bill gets to know Chiang Kai-shek and his wife. The war ends and the Chinese Civil War...

A young girl awakens to find she has memories from two different pasts, fifty years apart, both of which ended tragically when eight years old. She feels different. She is different. She is alive! The Professor has taken charge of a secret government project, which April is the core part of. Li-Ming is assigned to be April’s ‘educator’ and is a a harsh disciplinarian, although as April develops, she softens. However, April is warned by 'Travis', someone who resides inside her head, to trust no-one. When April and Li-Ming begin the drive across America in a specially adapted RV (the ...

Can Aimi defeat a bigger competitor than teams sponsored by Silicon Valley's most powerful Internet behemoths? The teams boarded the Floating City to travel the world in search of hidden mythological relics that when found may open doors to new worlds for the winners. Aimi was defeated by her mentor in part one of this epic voyage. Has Aimi sacrificed her integrity to no avail? Can she make her way back to her team? If you like honest characters, beautiful twists, and Christian themes, then you’ll love father-daughter writing duo Bill & Mia Belew’s wonderful tale. Buy sixth-in-series, ...

“也许，我这辈子就算做成了这一件事也好。”正是他的执着和坚持铸就了不平凡的人生。他用十年走遍神州、史上首次徒步穿越罗布泊！……「也許，我這輩子就算做成了這一件事也好。」正是他的執著和堅持鑄就了不平凡的人生。他用十年走遍神州、史上首次徒步穿越羅布泊！

Admiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis fights to take a radical new “super ship” to sea, even though its power and capability may introduce more risk than reward.

The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the factories fated for bankruptcy. Orlik games out what will happen if the bubble that never pops finally does. The magnitude of the shock to China and the world would be tremendous. For those in the West nervously watching China's rise as a geopolitical challenger, the alternative could be even less palatable.

Take a journey into the magical, creative world of Doodles Lanhorn, a 14-year-old boy gifted with exceptional Wizartry powers, where the art of drawing makes something come to life just with the whirl of his hand! In this latest adventure, Doodles takes an action-packed trip to China to compete in the annual Wizartry Competition, determined to win a seat on the Wizartry Council even though he is the youngest contestant, so he could change the realm for the better.

It's 1955, and Benjamin Burrows and Janie Scott are trying to live a safe, normal life in America. It's not easy when they have the power to prevent nuclear disaster, and sinister forces are circling. Soon the advice of a mysterious, unscrupulous magician propels Janie and Benjamin into danger and toward the land of the dead.

A disturbingly realistic vision of war several decades into the future. Invasion: China is as ambitious as it is powerful. Using advanced technologies in military science, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, air, and space for global supremacy. This controversial tale will keep you sleepless at night as America challenges the new colossus in the East: Greater China and her Pan-Asian allies. Hard-hitting. Vast in scope. And all too possibly real.

When Navy Seal and Scuba diver John Drew is wrongfully accused of murder and sent to Pelican Bay Prison, his life couldn’t get any worse. It does. Known for having the only prisoner SCUBA diving program in the world, Drew refuses to participate in the program until the heavy rains come and threaten to flood the entire valley, putting his wife and baby in mortal danger. A dive team of prisoners is assembled to make repairs to the Caustic Dam before it breeches and floods the valley. Drew volunteers to lead the team. The team has other ideas and, lead by Drew’s arch-rival Nick Cintron, ...

"China Sea Gold" is a thriller novel set in the mysterious and tumultuous waters of the China Sea in the early 20th century. Its narrative, filled with maritime escapades, dangerous and deceiving conspiracies, and an unending quest for hidden treasure, unfolds aboard a creaky, rickety ship navigating through some of the most treacherous waters on Earth. The Story The harrowing tale centers around Mr. Smith, a foreign correspondent who finds himself caught up in a web of deceit and treachery aboard the steamship Kut Sang. As he joins the vessel bound for Hong Kong, he crosses paths with a ...

During a chaotic UN evacuation from a 2009 Congo genocide, Tim Johnson, ex-SAS, City whizz kid and aid worker is mysteriously kidnapped, presumed dead. Two years later, John Mackenzie, fading journalist and ex-Cambridge university acquaintance claims to have found Johnson, briefly, in a hospital in Botswana before losing him again. During a chance meeting in Shanghai, Mackenzie asks the narrator, an old Cambridge acquaintance and psychologist, for his professional opinion of the incredible tale that Johnson told him of an Inselberg, a desert Shangri-La. Before the narrator can report his ...

The Chinese government has been keeping a secret for 40 years: they have found a species of animal no one believed even existed that will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane 'CJ' Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “...Terrific thriller” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “An amazing enjoyable read, you won’t be disappointed” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Like the good old disaster movies of Irwin Allen... funny... action packed... highly recommend it” A LONELY PLACE TO DIE… Point Nemo - the most remote location on the planet… Deep below the waves it’s known as the satellite graveyard… …And something terrifying is stirring… A group of scientists have been gathered to investigate a mysterious find. A threat that may not be from this world. A threat that could destroy life as we know it… Now...

When a baby girl is abandoned at the gate of a monastery in ancient China, the monks have no choice but to adopt her into their exclusively male society of world-renown masters of the art of kung fu. She is raised within the monastery with a small group of boys, watching the monks beautiful training exercises during the days and listening to recounts of glorious battles of great kung fu masters at nighttime. Her favorite stories are those of the grand tournament battles between the monastery grand master, Bai Chen, and the legendary Black Dragon, an unknown masked competitor with unequaled ...

FOR FIFTEEN HUNDRED YEARS THE TOMB OF THE CHINESE GENERAL HAD REMAINED HIDDEN BENEATH THE PALE YELLOW CLAY OF SHANXI PROVINCE. It lay undisturbed until a twelve-year-old boy fell through the roof. He kept its secret. Fifteen years later, now living in Australia, he tells his friend Charlie of the terror he felt when he had crashed down among the grave goods. Charlie convinces him that they should go to China, back to Shanxi, and break into the general’s tomb a second time, but this time they should loot its ancient artifacts, the jade, the porcelain, the gold and the silver. But are they ...

While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon US in search of his missing daughter, his wife, Blair Titus, lands in a spookily deserted, riot-torn Beijing to negotiate the reunification of Taiwan with the rest of China and try to create a democratic government. But a CIA-sponsored Islamic insurgency in Xianjiang province is hurtling out of control. Andres Korzenowski, a young case officer, must decide whether ex-SEAL Master Chief Teddy Oberg - now the leader of a ruthless jihad - should be extracted, left in place, or terminated.