Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

A journalist meets fascinating characters while seeking out a fugitive gangster in the Chinese underworld.

The notorious gangster Lai Changxing started out as an illiterate farmer, but in the tumult of China's burgeoning economy, he seized the opportunity to remake himself as a bandit king. A newly minted billionaire of outsized personality and even greater appetites, he was a living legend who eventually ran afoul of authorities. The journalist Oliver August set out to find the fugitive...