Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man, Vol. 10 » (Unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hours)

Oliver August spent seven years in China as the Beijing bureau chief for the Times of London. He was previously the paper's youngest-ever New York correspondent. He now reports from the Middle East.

Simon Vance is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audie(R) Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by "Booklist" magazine.

Due to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. August sets out to find the self-made billionaire, in the hope that if he can understand how Lai reinvented himself, he will also better understand the tectonic forces transforming modern China.

The Washington Post - Steven Mufson

For August, Lai comes to embody hope and people's ability to reinvent themselves. When we finally meet Lai, however, he seems an unlikely vessel for all that significance; he is more concerned with the size of his television set and with visiting casinos than with man's fate in China. This could have been a fatal flaw in the book, but in the process of searching for Lai, August gives us a colorful sense of Xiamen and a microcosm of the upheaval in Chinese society.

Prologue     1
Writers     11
Petits Bourgeois     21
The Landlord     38
Boatmen     56
Dancing Girls     73
Three Hands     84
Villagers     97
Believers     109
The Goose Liver King     117
Bandits     125
The Madam     138
Fugitives     156
Night Traders     172
Rocket Cadres     180
The Vice-Minister     192
Lawyers     203
The Gambler     214
The Gambler II     233
The Officer     245
Epilogue     256
Acknowledgments     265