China Scoop: Second Edition - Softcover

Second edition of the riveting thriller, centring on the explosive truth behind the now widely accepted belief that the policies of the late Chairman Mao accounted for the death of fifty million of his countrymen. In the late 1970s a document indicting Mao was prepared, but kept under wraps by its authors for fear of creating turmoil in China and consequent international crisis. In 1978, a defector from mainland China is pursued to Hong Kong, bringing with him a copy of this extraordinary document. When Larry Fenton, a Western journalist, comes into possession of the document, he becomes a target of Western, Soviet and Chinese agencies determined to prevent him from publishing it., fearing that if this violent attack on the 'untouchable' Mao were to be revealed it could lead to an uncontrollable war scenario.

Denis Miller was born and educated in the UK where he studied Oriental Languages at Cambridge University. He became a freelance journalist working for a press ranging from The Far Eastern Economic Review, Le Monde Diplomatique to the UK’s The Countryman.

In a parallel career, he was Government-employed in the China field for some twenty years. With work in the Far East and in Europe, the variety of his particular experience is probably unique. After a period at GCHQ as a Chinese linguist, he spent time with three different Western Services: MI6, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and the CIA. He is now retired in France, and writing another novel.

Denis Miller’s other fiction includes The Chinese Jade Affair and Alle Spie Piace Formosa (Mondadori, Milan), Diplomatic Traffic (New English Library), A Spell in Normandy (Kédéa Editions, Paris) and Chinese Ransom (AESOP Modern)