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The Expat

By Hansen Shi

The Expat

By Hansen Shi

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"At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Want is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he's working quietly on a breakthrough in self-driving car technology that he hopes will catapult him out of obscurity. Disaffected and largely friendless in San Francisco, he's dogged by resentment towards the Ivy Leaguers who never accepted him and and his colleagues at GM who see him as passive and faceless. But all that changes when one night, on a freelance coding platform, he meets the beautiful and enigmatic Vivian. She's been admiring Michael's work from afar and represents a rival Beijing tech company that's eager to poach him as a newly minited executive, liberate his ideas from the stagnant confines of GM, and help him find success in the wilder, less regulated business environs of China. For Michael--alienated and underappreciated--it's no choice at all. But as soon as Michael arrives in Beijing, Vivian vanishes. When the true nature of his new position is made clear, Michael finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous web of industrial espionage and counterintelligence. Caught between two countries that view him as a pawn, where do his loyalties lie?"--Provided by publisher.
Product details
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2024-07-02
Publication Date:
2024-07-02
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1639366776
ISBN13:
9781639366774
Weight:
390 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
232 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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