New York: Walker, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel under this pseudonym. Publishers Weekly called it a "timely novel is a corrective to the benign image of China which the American media embraced for so long. A CIA agent, traveling by train in China in 1959 as a Canadian businessman, but as floods devastate the countryside and wash away bridges, the passengers are forced to abandon the train and all undergo an ordeal of famine and near-starvation. . the narrator-hero is arrested for a nameless crime and sentenced to 20 years' hard labor in a Chinese prison in Tibet."244 pp. ISBN: 0-802710727.