The Jade Dragon will take you on a journey to old Shanghai, where danger, excitement, and romance exist side by side.In 1935, Shanghai is the place to be. Glittering nightlife, bustling business, and a diverse international community are just some of the appeals of the "Paris of the Orient." Douglas Bainbridge, Office of Naval Intelligence, is beginning a two-year immersion in Shanghai when he runs into Tim McIntyre, a childhood friend from San Francisco. ...

In the swashbuckling town of Port Royal, Jamaica in 1665, fortunes can be made and anything goes... if you live long enough.An accident finds Billy Clark and Katie Turner with two dead bodies and no reasonable explanation. They have to get out of Bristol fast. Fortunately, a ship they learned about from a handsome departing Quaker boy is leaving that very night for Jamaica.Billy wants Tom. But Katie also wants Tom. Tom just wants to be a good Quaker in this...

In seventeenth-century England, loving the wrong person could put you in a hangman's noose...Noah Bancroft, banished and rejected after being caught in a compromising position, hopes for a fresh start in the new colonies, where no one knows his sins. But his bright future gets derailed when he can't keep his eyes off a handsome young native man named Jimmy Hawkey.After escaping from a cruel master, Noah finds refuge in a community of young men like himself ...

Dangerous and mysterious events are afoot in a peace-loving land...Someone is killing Swiss colonels, and painting a hammer and sickle at the scene. When Dr. Fritz Rubenstein, a physicist in Zurich, is gunned down in his office, the only clue is a letter in his trash requesting assistance for the French Resistance. Swiss Intelligence is new, underfunded, and understaffed, and they ask the U.S. government for help. Martin Schuller is sent to Switzerland to ...

An accidental casualty of battle--or murder?August 1937, the Japanese have invaded northern Shanghai, and a fierce battle rages across the city, but the International Settlement is an island of safety. When an American seaman is found shot on the edge of the urban battleground, mere feet from the boundary, Doug Bainbridge is assigned to investigate for the navy. But what seems a case of foolhardy drunken daredevil sightseeing gone wrong becomes much more sinister w...

A night out in Shanghai can turn deadly, especially if you're Japanese...Shanghai, 1936. A series of assassinations of Japanese businessmen, sailors, and officials has struck fear into the International Settlement, and the Chinese government is blaming communist insurgents. Doug Bainbridge is soon pulled into the political intrigue.When a friend of Doug's is arrested for the assassination of a Japanese secret agent, Doug is certain she didn't do it. Since C...

1940 – The City of Lights has gone dark, and Nazi oppression crushes the land of Liberty, Fraternity, and EqualityAmerican Oliver Carmichael loves his life in Paris, playing in a night club jazz band, and enjoying the freedom and intellectual stimulation of his bohemian set of friends. His happiness is tempered by unresolved feelings for his ex-fiancée, Lisette, especially after he sees her with another man–but he tends those wounds with an affair with an older wom...

In 1942 France, the unoccupied "Zone Libre" was anything but free.Oliver Carmichael has settled into Lyon after his hurried escape from occupied Paris. He owns his own cabaret and directs his own band. But his destiny is not his own, when a French bureaucrat uses Oliver's past to coerce him into meeting with an agent of the Free French.Frank Dryden at the American embassy enlists Oliver in the "secret war" against the Vichy regime. Oliver teams up ...

Murder isn't supposed to happen in a safe town like Herron...Who could have wanted to kill Tom Stafford, the most popular kid in school, and the best quarterback in town history? Sheriff Mark Bennett can't fathom a reason. Everyone knows everything about everyone in their small southern Indiana town…or do they?When Tom is found stabbed in the woods outside of Heron, the town is thrown into shock and disbelief. Crime like this doesn't happen here. Sheriff Be...

When wartime curfew means nightclubs lock their doors until six AM, partiers might get locked in with a murderer...Spring 1938. Douglas Bainbridge is certain he's finished solving murders. With the war moving on to the west, Doug's work for the Office of Naval Intelligence has quieted down, Shanghai has settled into an uneasy new normal under Japanese occupation, and the districts along the Great Western Road are booming with new dens of entertainment and vice. In ...

Argentina, 1940 - where lovers dance the tango, and spies do a more dangerous dance...After disobeying orders from the Chief Special Agent, State Department counterintelligence agent Martin Schuller has been exiled to the American Embassy in Argentina, where he has to work with his FBI nemesis, Reginald Sloan. But if you're going to be sent into exile in 1940, Buenos Aires is a pretty good place to land.When Martin discovers a Nazi smuggling operation sneak...

As the threat of war looms in Europe, the shadow game of espionage has come to America, and Martin Schuller knows it. While most Americans go about their daily lives oblivious to any threat from abroad, Martin's work at the State Department's counter-intelligence office keeps them safe, sometimes going undercover to catch a Nazi spy hidden among them. But an anticipated bust at the rally of the German American Bund in February 1939 results in Martin's mistaken arrest by the FBI, frustratin...