While anyone can hop on a plane and fly anywhere in the world for work or a holiday, investigative journalist Michael McCarthy combines the two, using his frequent press trips as research for hundreds of stories of his travels to nearly 50 countries. While ostensibly reporting about places to stay, where to go and what to do on vacation, he also keeps his eye out for hidden clues about ways that the Chinese Communist Party is secretly infiltrating western democracies in order to take over the world. The book is structured as a page turner, one trip leading to the next, told in narrative style about what the author sees and where, and why the reader should know and care about what is actually happening to the world behind the scenes. The Chinese are taking over the world, and using Westerners money to do so, a true Trojan horse disguised as actions good for all concerned, but deadly dangerous for all.
"I don't know what I envy most about Michael McCarthy's work. The exotic trips? Seamless storytelling? Milk-through-your-nose humor? His willingness to tackle places and topics that most travelers would shy away from? What I do know: I find his writing effortless to read and impossible to resist."
Brad Newsham, author of All the Right Places and Take Me with You
"Worthy of being in the footsteps of Peter Matthiessen's great work."
Rick Antonson, author of Timbuktu for a Haircut and Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guine