Shanghai Heat

By Jack Baines

International advertising man Tom Hope, a loner living on planes, has made his first trip to Shanghai, the steamy paradise of adventurers and home to an earlier generation of his family. Invited by a former colleague, Tom finds the man has gone AWOL in suspicious circumstances.
As he follows the man's trail, he gets involved with mercenaries, spies, a former lover, frightening trips and more dangers than James Bond’s had martinis.
Not to mention terrorists intent on creating a Top Five Atrocity to grab the world’s headlines.
All of which provides a wake up call for Tom to get a life, find himself, and stop running.
Tom takes a personal journey from brooding self-pity, through grudging commitment to true heroism when he finds his world - and ours - involves the safety of a small boy.
The clock ticks. Shanghai's heat rises. Death comes onto the agenda. And rebirth. But for whom?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jack Baines
• Release date: Apr 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311347411

Jack Baines

It finally happened. On an international trip, he woke up in a hotel but just could not remember the name of the country. Or even the continent. It seemed that life had moved over from real to unreal. Having stepped on the road to personal fantasy, he decided to call time on the day job. So, he archived his life, quit the office before the last meeting proved one too many and made his escape into fiction where he was reborn as Jack Baines.

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