In the setting of real-life Zaire and the Great Lakes region of central Africa, three bank investigators provoke retaliation by corrupt government officials. The sky was darkening fast, and blasts of wind evolved into a cloudburst as he got the car up to speed. They'd reached the main road to Ndjili and turned onto it. From the shoot 'em up fights, to the very subtle love story, to the quest for money and conflict of values." -Phyllis Forbes Kerr, editor, Letters from China "Moving and interesting stories in this fascinating novel bring the reader back to the days of the old China trade." -Yong Chen, History Department, University of California-Irvine Back at home, Civil War tears America apart. Dreams of his own fortunes ebb and flow, and he questions his identity. Amid rebellion, war, corruption, poverty, and opium, conditions deteriorate around him. Conniving Chinese merchants help him with one hand and cheat him with another while China is threatened by violence and foreign invasion.
Along the way, Richard Starr faces death, illness, moral conundrums, and profound loneliness in a culture he is worlds away from truly understanding. As the British and French fight the opium wars, and the Chinese Taiping Rebellion ravages the land. His curiosity pulls him deep within China's foreign culture, where he fights greed and corruption. Starr begins his adventure as an expatriate American merchant, living a life of luxury in the British colony. Now, his letters and reminiscences come to life. As a young man, Dana lived in three vastly different Chinese cities-Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Hankow. Dana III's great-grandfather, Into the Tiger's Mouth offers new perspectives on a turbulent period. Inspired by the experiences of Richard Starr Dana, author David T. “It looks like a case for firearms as well as 281 Into the Tiger's Mouth.
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