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A #1 Best Seller A chance meeting one night in Shanghai introduces American banker Jack Gold to an Israeli man named Ari, who Jack feels an immediate kinship with. Ari has a stunning proposition: Help Israel and the United States infiltrate China's heavily guarded Control Center and address the nation with the truth they deserve to hear. China, a country of 1.4 billion citizens, is an existential threat to itself and the rest of the world. With its news and media censored through the Control Center before being broadcast to viewers, the people of China have no hope of realizing their government is only looking to enrich and reward its most prominent leaders. Jack has called China his home for years now, though his optimism about China's economy opening up has faded as the years have passed and nothing has changed. His professional life is stalled; his love life is nonexistent. But Jack sees the endless potential China and its citizens could possess, if only they had free access to information. But getting into the Control Center is not going to be easy. Written by Brad Good, who started living and working in the People's Republic of China in 1988, THE CHINA AFFAIRS is a series of four novels that take place in China. Good brings rare on-the-ground knowledge of contemporary Chinese political, social, and cultural issues, and associated international affairs. Jack Gold is an American in China who is recruited by an Israeli agent to penetrate the Control Center, China's broadcasting hub. (Book 1) Next, at great personal threat, China and the United States solicit his leadership in creating a new trade deal between the countries. (Book 2) Jack is then recruited by the President of China, with the use of artificial intelligence, to transform China and the lives of its citizens. (Book 3) After China elects a new president who returns the country to Communism, the President of the United States calls on Jack to lead a dangerous plan to fight back. (Book 4)

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A high-stakes political thriller with a deeply romantic undertone ... With the way this book ended, I'm eager to find out what happens next. -Independent Book Review A provocative, exhilarating thriller set in modern-day China, The Control Center immerses the reader in the oblique worlds of love and political intrigue. Written by a China hand, this fun and gripping story spares nothing as it illuminates the precarious nature of living at the intersection of two of the world's superpowers. -Yum! China (KFC, Pizza Hut), Don Miller, Senior China Executive An unhurried but consistently engaging international tale with an atypical hero. -Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Trade Experiment (Book 2) Of love and politics-an international thriller with nearly everything on the line. -Independent Book Review Another well-written, globe-trotting installment in this deliberately paced series. -Kirkus Reviews Praise for The China Declaration (Book 4) Good's familiarity with Chinese politics, economics, and culture infuses his narrative with a wealth of details that lend realism to scenes of political wrangling and the minutiae of everyday life. -IndieReader

An unhurried but consistently engaging international tale with an atypical hero. - Kirkus Reviews A high-stakes political thriller with a deeply romantic undertone ... With the way this book ended, I'm eager to find out what happens next. -Independent Book Review A provocative, exhilarating thriller set in modern-day China, The Control Center immerses the reader in the oblique worlds of love and political intrigue. Written by a China hand, this fun and gripping story spares nothing as it illuminates the precarious nature of living at the intersection of two of the world's superpowers. - Yum! China (KFC, Pizza Hut), Don Miller, Senior China Executive Praise for The Trade Experiment (Book 2) Another well-written, globe-trotting installment in this deliberately paced series. - Kirkus Reviews Praise for The China Declaration (Book 4) Good's familiarity with Chinese politics, economics, and culture infuses his narrative with a wealth of details that lend realism to scenes of political wrangling and the minutiae of everyday life. - IndieReader

A high-stakes political thriller with a deeply romantic undertone ... With the way this book ended, I'm eager to find out what happens next. -Independent Book Review Good doesn't skimp on major developments and twists upending the international order as Jack and co. take bold, dangerous steps to open China. -Publishers Weekly Reviewer A provocative, exhilarating thriller set in modern-day China, The Control Center immerses the reader in the oblique worlds of love and political intrigue. Written by a China hand, this fun and gripping story spares nothing as it illuminates the precarious nature of living at the intersection of two of the world's superpowers. -Yum! China (KFC, Pizza Hut), Don Miller, Senior China Executive An unhurried but consistently engaging international tale with an atypical hero. -Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Trade Experiment (Book 2) Of love and politics-an international thriller with nearly everything on the line. -Independent Book Review Another well-written, globe-trotting installment in this deliberately paced series. -Kirkus Reviews Praise for The Probability of Success (Book 3) The Probability of Success has a lot of exciting new developments for returning readers. -Independent Book Review Praise for The China Declaration (Book 4) Good's familiarity with Chinese politics, economics, and culture infuses his narrative with a wealth of details that lend realism to scenes of political wrangling and the minutiae of everyday life. -IndieReader

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#1 Best Seller, written by Brad Good who started living and working in the People's Republic of China in 1988, THE CHINA AFFAIRS is a series of four novels that take place in China. Good brings rare on-the-ground knowledge of contemporary Chinese political, social, and cultural issues, and associated international affairs.Good has done business across the country and lived in a broad range of cities in China and Asia. He holds an MBA and Masters in East Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and a BA from U.C. Berkeley. He speaks fluent Mandarin and is a fifth degree blackbelt in Shaolin Kempo Karate. After spending COVID in China, Good now resides in Austin, Texas.

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