Moses Wine is a force to reckon with and to read with pleasure.Dick Lochte, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA fun detective novel you just dont get enough of anymore...there is a certain style reminiscent of those 1950s Mickey Spillane novels when men were men and private investigators were private dicks...definitely recommended reading.West Coast Review of BooksWith a new introduction by Roger L. SimonA guided tour of the Peoples Republic, Aunt Sonya had said: U.S.-China Friendship Study Tour Number Five, arranged by the China Friendship Society, an organization in which she was involved. Why not get away from it all? Moses Wine figured. At least it would get him away from personal injury cases, murder investigations, and the insistent feeling that boredom and alienation were about to become his constant companions in his middle age. But China has a way of springing surprises, and soon California's hippest ex-radical detective is chasing down the priceless Han Dynasty Peking Duck, falling for a gorgeous dragon lady in a Mao suitand fighting for his life across a vast, mysterious land he barely knows...Ever restless, ROGER L. SIMON has spent his life moving between books and movies, gaining distinction in both. In books, he is best known for the seven Moses Wine detective novels, which have won prizes in the U.S. and Great Britain and been published in over a dozen languages. In film, most prominent among his six produced screenplaysincluding his adaptation of The Big Fixis Enemies, A Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award.