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In 1962, a young Guang Jinli travels from China to America to study economics at USC in Los Angeles where he falls in love with a Chinese American girl. In 2017, the same Guang Jinli, now the First-ranked Vice Premier of The People's Republic of China for trade and investment policy, returns to America after a fifty-year absence. His trip includes a graduation speech at his alma mater and a meeting in Washington DC with the Treasury Secretary. Once there, he's confronted by a revelation that presents a potential threat to China-United States relations and the possible destruction of his stellar career. The most recent hundred years of the Chinese Revolution sets the stage for this unfolding story that moves from early twentieth century China, through Los Angeles in the sixties, and on to the twenty-first century White House. The book features a compelling, and sometimes quirky, cast of supporting characters who are cleverly interwoven with the storyline. Consequences is a book about our actions and the way they echo through history, often undecipherable until we're blessed with the perspective of elapsed time....

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After a forty-five year career in commercial real estate, Jim Prock and his wife, Sue, moved from Palos Verdes Estates, California on the Pacific Coast to Palm Desert, California, where their new life is full of social activity and new pursuits. One of those new pursuits was to write a children's book for his nine grandchildren, entitled Gnorman the Gnorwegian Gnome. The success of that book led him to take on Consequences, a more ambitious project that stemmed from his interest in different cultures, politics, and the Los Angeles of his college days. Jim was encouraged as a youth to pursue the arts but those activities were put on hold until after his graduation from USC, a three-year tour of duty as a naval officer on board a destroyer in the Pacific, and his marriage. He and his wife raised three children. Now in retirement, he has taken up several hobbies: golf, singing in his church choir, and foreign travel. It's the travel experience that stimulated his curiosity about history and his newfound enjoyment of writing. Consequences is his second book....

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