A Death in China

An action-packed, China-set crime thriller coauthored by the#1

New York Times

-bestselling author of

Bad Monkey

, now an Apple TV series.

Art history professor Tom Stratton hasn't seen his former mentor David Wang for years-until they unexpectedly run into each other while Stratton is on a guided tour of China. But the reunion doesn't last long. After Wang is found dead-and the American embassy fumbles the investigation-Stratton sets out to solve the mystery of the killing on his own.

Before long, he's tangled in a web of corruption that reaches the highest seats of power. Beset by the suffocating secrecy and subterfuge of communist China, Stratton must find his friend's murderer-before the fury of a brutal conspiracy closes in on him.

Along with
Powder Burn and
Trap Line, this international mystery is one of the early suspense thrillers written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano, a writing team praised for their "fine flair for characters and settings" (
Library Journal).