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|title=A Drop of Chinese Blood

|sort=Drop of Chinese Blood, A

|publisher=Minotaur Books

|date=December 2012

|summary=A spin off from former Western intelligence worker, James Church's highly regarded Inspector O series, this is a satirical look at the complex relationships between China, Mongolia, North and South Korea. Expect to be kept in the dark as much as the characters are with regard to plot development.

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Set on the Chinese border with North Korea and in Mongolia, James Church's ''A Drop of Chinese Blood'' offers a complex crime mystery of lies and deception, although for much of the book it's not entirely clear what the crime is. I was drawn to the book by the author's background. James Church is a pseudonym for an American former intelligence officer whose working life was spent in North Korea and the surrounding area, so he undoubtedly knows his subject. His previous books have featured the North Korean Inspector O, and while he gets another outing here, this time he has moved beyond Korea to China to have O residing with his chief of Chinese Ministry of State Security nephew, Major Bing.