ROCK PAPER TIGER (Ellie McEnroe 1)

American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding her for information. They say the Uighur is a terrorist. Ellie doesn't know what's going on, but she must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side - in particular, a mysterious organization operating within a popular online role-playing game. As she tries to elude her pursuers, she's haunted by memories of Iraq. Is what she did and saw there at the root of the mess she's in now?

"Few writers would be up to the challenge of blending the worlds of urban China, Iraq, and a virtual online kingdom--but Lisa Brackmann wildly succeeds. Prepare to taste the smog, smell the noodles, and rub the Beijing dust between your fingers. Rock Paper Tiger is a fresh and vigorous work that vividly captures the roller coaster that is life in modern China." - Eliot Pattison

"A splendid debut novel by a gifted new writer. Her Chinese setting is exotic and chilling, and the characters live and breathe. The story is smart and fast as a sports car. Keep an eye on Brckmann." T. Jefferson Parker

"Lisa Brackmann's Rock Paper Tiger is a compelling debut that takes you deep into the dangerous, complicated heart of modern China, with a tough and appealing heroine in Ellie." - Jeff Abbott

Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. ROCK PAPER TIGER is her first novel.