John Francis Cross

Ghosh in China John Francis Cross

Past midnight deep in Beijing winter, Brit Marcas Ghosh, 27, staggers drunkenly near the snowy field where 147 believers in an internet-based cult and the 150 security personnel sent to arrest them lie mysteriously dead. Ghosh knows something and becomes unwittingly entangled in the sexual and political secrets of high officials at China's Ministry of Religious Affairs. In quick time, Ghosh is captured, released, re-arrested, falls in love with a government agent, bonds with a prison guard over mutual affection for rats, shares his secrets, and gains insight into himself, his birth nation, and his new home, China.