A Coward in Modern China: the first Professor Runworth adventure

"This is the story of a knowing scoundrel, and of what became of him." A Coward in Modern China is a travel comedy, crime caper and adventure - based on the escapades of bogus professor, Robert Runworth.

• Set largely in contemporary Beijing, and partly in California, it is raunchy and mischievous in its plot and action. Yet the pages are also classically stylish; and historically detailed in their account of life in China today.
• Here is a good old-fashioned yarn in the tradition of the Flas...