Wuhan 2019

When 10,000 athletes from 109 nations converge on the city of Wuhan, no one realizes the danger. Dissidents see the Olympic-styled games as an opportunity to strike. And young volunteers form an unlikely partnership to try and stop the terrorists. At center of the plot is the Tsagaan Khas, an extremist group bent on restoring the glory of Kublai Khan. They believe his Yuan dynasty began its downfall with the Black Plague. They buy into an ancient prophesy that only another such pandemic could restore the Mongols to their rightful place of world leadership. Wuhan 2019 also explores the culture of one of China's fastest-growing cities, the 2,000-year history of Yellow Crane Tower, and the splendor of East Lake Greenway. It contrasts the good nature of the Chinese people with overbearing government surveillance, sophisticated retinal scanning and an internet firewall of censorship. It takes readers from the scenic river valleys of southern China to the emperor's summer palace in Manchuria, along the docks of Canton, into the gambling casinos of Macau, to the crowded pens of a Wuhan marketplace.