The Hong Kong Connection — S.G. Kiner

Political intrigue, suspense, romance and a gutsy and beautiful protagonist create a well-crafted masterpiece of a novel in S.G. Kiner's The Hong Kong Connection -- A Susanna Sloane Novel.

Meet Susanna Sloane, a brilliant, beautiful and street-wise securities attorney. A widow and grandmother of three, Sloane hasn't lost her spunk or nerve, taking on the Chinese government, the big boys of Wall Street, U.S. government officials, the FBI, and the Russian mafia -- some as foes and some as friends.

Susanna is hired as a consultant by the Chinese government and travels to Hong Kong. As is her modus operandi, she completes her assignment and returns home to New York. Upon her return, she begins to have horrifying psychic episodes and enlists the help of a hypnotherapist. What she learns is that something unimaginable happened to her while in Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, the secretary of the treasury enlists her aid in preventing the Chinese government's manipulating the purchase of oil futures. Susanna travels to Beijing with the official and is swept up into a tumultuous affair with him while at the same time, getting offers from the Chinese government to negotiate a major oil deal with Venezuela.

How can Susanna benefit both China and the United States? What will she do to seek revenge on a certain high-ranking official of the Chinese government? Things begin to spiral out of control, but this spunky heroine has her own agenda and nothing and no one will stop her from getting what she wants.

Kiner's novel is a taut, rollercoaster of a ride from New York to Palm Beach to Washington, D.C. and Asia. The plot is expertly woven, the characters persuasive, and the dialogue snappy and spot on. Look out -- Susanna Sloane is here to stay. Fans of the female mystery genre will find her irresistible and will want to get to know her over and over again.