Eyes And Ears: 12 books

THIS IS THE REVISED AND RE-EDITED VERSION, WITH UPDATED ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, THANKS, EYES & EARS EDITIONS "Kung delivers a touching story enriched by its strong Hong Kong atmosphere.” Publishers Weekly "This is a Hong Kong readers don’t come across very often and the author...

From the author of the Orange Prize-nominated "A Visit From Voltaire" and the comic novel, "Love and the Art of War" comes a heartwarming and funny short story about the scorching August morning her mother died in Los Angeles.A woman who loved living among the various "types" who might have walked...

Freshly stained with the blood of Caesar Gallus, Agent Numidianus must spy on a rising Franco-Roman hero rescuing Roman Gaul from Alemannic raiders.The dashing General Claudius Silvanus once betrayed Marcus’ father but later saved Marcus himself from execution. Is Silvanus now the man to save the...

The first volume of a thrilling espionage adventure series unlike all others—with the unique setting of Late Roman North Africa in 347 A.D. among religious terrorists. The Circumcellions are suicidal extremists determined to uproot the centuries-old Roman army occupation of the Numidian desert and...

Imperial agent Numidianus gets more trouble than he can handle when recruiting barbarian informers. The fiery Alemanna Gunda agrees to testify before an imperial hearing pitting the bookish Caesar Julian against his resentful general. But is Gunda’s evidence backing Julian only a self-serving lie?And...

To unite the warring Roman army under his fresh command, Emperor Julian offers his military enemies a free hand over a sinister show trial purging the late Constantius II's court. As the names of the generals' targets leak out from the Chalcedon tribunal, panic and betrayal engulfs civil...

Nominated for the UK's Orange/Baileys Prize for Fiction, the comic novel "A Visit From Voltaire" brings the incorrigible 18th-century troublemaker back to life as he haunts the Swiss farmhouse of a newly-arrived American and her family. Over the course of a lonely winter, a hilariously reincarnated...

Roman intelligence agent Numidianus' secret assignment to spy on the Caesar Gallus and his vicious consort Constantia tosses him into Antioch's cesspool of corruption and violence.Should he risk his career by betraying the unstable Gallus to his cousin, the Emperor Constantius II, or play...

In the second volume of The Embers of Empire series, Rome's intelligence agent Marcus must escape the court of young Emperor Constans after he uncovers the humiliating secret of the young emperor’s vice-ridden entourage.But his flight lands him in greater danger—a delicate assignment to investigate...

It's Christmas week in Hong Kong and Business World bureau chief Claire Raymond should be covering the British colony’s impending handover to Beijing’s rule. Sidelined on maternity leave she can’t help investigating why neighbor Vicky Sandford's son Petey died at the end of May Road. When a...

High in the remote Himalayas, who is the traitor—the nervous Dr. Chamba, the dashing Dr. Norsang, the beautiful nurse DaDon or the weary Swiss-Tibetan Kelsang? Xavier Vonalp takes journalist Claire Raymond to his medical project in Tibet on a quest to nail the informer betraying Tibetan patients...

"From the Orange Prize-nominated author of "A Visit From Voltaire" comes a delightful mix of Desperate Housewife-meets-Karate Kid, with hints for the underdog reader in each of us. Read this witty literary romance and you'll be get ready to take on the bullies and poseurs out in the...