An Irregular Alliance

An Irregular Alliance
Maxine Hart Series. Book 9
An American tourist (Jim Sanders) is blamed for stealing the famous Sword of Goujian from a China Museum. But this tourist is actually a U.S. spy who is being framed and he had nothing to do with the theft. To help mend China and U.S. relations, the American government has offered to help retrieve the relic. President XI Jinping puts together a combined task force of American and Chinese officials to find out who stole the sword, retrieve and it and return it to the Chinese people. The U.S. government assigns the task to the unlikely team once before used. Teaming up once again to solve the crime is Author Maxine Hart, CIA Riley Morgan, CIA Jeff Perkins, and Detectives Jack Turner and Harry Black.
Their investigations lead them to the Afghanistan Taliban and the Russians currently at war with Ukraine. Follow the team’s dangerous paths as they search for clues to discover the whereabouts of the missing sword and follow their dangerous path to recover and return the sword. All while dealing with East – West tensions and prejudices in the midst of a world crisis.