In the 1970's Angie Benedetto, a smart-mouthed Brooklyn girl whos neighborhood customs chafe her as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform, desperately wants to fly. Angie dreams of flying airplanes, traveling to exotic places and finding a guy who doesn't think high-roll collars and a duck's ass hairstyle mark the height of sophistication. After Angies mother allows her to fly for her Uncle Anthony as a missionary pilot, Angie reports the murder of Asmat natives. She becomes a tool for her Uncles plans to gain control of a gold mine and the quarry of mercenaries who protect the new owners possession of the same mine. Charles Abbott Aldridge is a proper New Englander who wants to study primitive tribes, help his father, and be left alone to live his life. Charles, lost and presumed dead for half-a-dozen years, is the only man who can help Angie. Smart-mouthed Angie needs proper New Englander Charles to escape from those people looking to kill her and Charles needs Angie to help his father. Angies Uncle Anthony must deal with Angies mother alone.
Fact: In the 1200 AD, Jews settled in the Chinese town of Kaifeng. Fact: In the 1920’s, Iraqi Jews were some of the richest citizens in Shanghai. Fact: In the 1920’s, the 1st Chinese Communist Party Congress convened in Shanghai. Fact: In the 1930’s and ‘40’s, Jewish refugees escaping Europe settled in Shanghai. Fact: In July 2000, the United States stopped Israel from selling AWACS technology to China. In July 2001, the Israelis and the Chinese collaborate on a far more daring plan. Ex-oilfield worker/now art critic Joe Fleischer escapes criminal charges after an Indonesian oilrig explosion. When Joe’s ex-boss and a mysterious Chinese man question him about a paper cutting at a Shanghai art exhibition, Joe discovers an Israeli/Chinese plot hatched by early Chinese Communists and wealthy Jewish immigrants in 1934.
My years writing in foreign countries had been my life until I quit. When I landed at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, Mary Saint-Baptiste from The Picayune had a job for me. I really had nothing else to do and so I figured what the hell. The clich says truth is stranger than fiction; but when I returned to the States, it seemed like fiction had become truth. I got curious as to whose truth had become the truth. Having knuckled under to political pressure, the press was too busy entertaining to argue for truth. The media was in a love/hate relationship with the public that definitely accentuated the hate. The relationship had spawned a story when people started turning up dead. So my search for truth became a murder mystery. It seemed two Christian ministers, who hated each other, had banned together to attack common enemies. To cover their actions, they had enlisted the help of an Arab/Haitian restaurateur they felt they could use as a scapegoat if things went wrong. When federal officials arrested the restaurateur as an illegal alien and possible terrorist, the media, now a tool of whoever paid for their services, came to her aid. When the restaurateur became a media darling, the ministers plan began to go wrong.
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