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The Beijing Games Pat Depaolo

THE BEIJING GAMES is a break-neck international thriller depicting a China-led conspiracy involving the most unlikely cabal of Washington insiders, a giant U. S. retailer, a private European banker, and a Chinese conglomerate controlled by the PLA. Their black goal is to eliminate all import restrictions on Chinese-made goods, and effectively destroy large segments of the U. S. manufacturing industry in order to dictate spending decisions of millions of Americans for years to come. Set in 2008/2009, the only person standing in their way is 48-year-old failed businessman, Justin Gatt, an unlikely hero whose life is thrust into turmoil when he is recruited to travel undercover in China to attempt to gather information critical to the U. S. Aided by three remarkable women who risk their lives to help him, Gatt escapes a Shanghai death-squad and a Chinese SAM missile. Finally, he's caught in the cross-hairs of an assassin's sniper rifle, as he attempts to warn US officials of a conspiracy to unlease biological and financial attacks designed to stagger the US economy. When chaos follows the Olympics, Gatt must find a way to warn the President-elect of an even more deadly threat. SEE READER COMMENTS BELOW: