Raymond Barnett

Relax, You're Already Home: Everyday Taoist Habits for a Richer Life
Simple daily habits that give health, balance, and joy to our everyday lives, by linking us to the larger rhythms of the planet and to the vital bedrock of existence. Introducing the practical wisdom of China's folk culture to modern America.

The Return to Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins is lured back to the Caribbean in 1758 by Long John Silver, only to discover baffling clues to a treasure hidden by a great Chinese fleet in 1421. They join with two intrepid young women to solve the keys to the treasure: the escaped slave Tabitha, living only for revenge on the Commandante who killed her mother, and Meilu, last of a Chinese colony abandoned on Cuba’s shore four centuries earlier.

Jade and Fire.
Winter 1948. Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung surround Peking, as its warlord Fu Tso-yi bargains to save the city. Police Inspector Bei Min-jen also has a problem: a string of courtesan murders in the city's most exclusive brothels. Bei's investigations lead him to a mysterious Taoist temple in the Western Hills, and the growing realization that the murders and the seige are related.

The China Ultimatum
China has abruptly given Taiwan a week to reunify with the motherland or face destruction. Rising State Department star Philip Dawson, sent to mediate the crisis, immediately faces attempts on his life—or is the target the alluring Taiwanese newswoman who is shadowing his moves? Together, they must solve the riddle of the assassins, and somehow find a formula acceptable to Taiwan and China—with only 7 days before Chinese missiles lift over the Straits and drag the United States into a nuclear war.

The T'ae Medallion
The T’ae Medallion. Into the tumult of Korea in the late 1880’s—a peasant revolt, rapacious nobles, the weak King Kojong, armies from China and Japan pouring into the beleaguered country—disillusioned Virginian Jefferson Phelps returns a mysterious medallion given to his father four decades earlier. His attraction to a forbidden woman of the dominant Min clan thrusts him into the center of intrigues and great battles changing the history of Asia.

The Death of Mycroft
An 89-year-old Sherlock Holmes is summoned to London in May of 1944 by a telegram from his brother Mycroft, who has been deeply involved in the planning for the upcoming D-Day invasion of Europe. Sherlock arrives to discover his brother dead, with clues indicating murder by a Nazi spy who has infiltrated the D-Day planning group.