Once featured on the front pages of New York's business and society papers, Jack Davis had spiraled downward in the aftermath of the crisis.

Exiled to the last remnant of his investment empire—a rusty silicon smelter in the Chinese jungle north of the Burmese border—his comeback seems farfetched.

His prospects appear grim when Jack discovers his employees are using the company's trucks to run jade from Burma over the border to China.

Set in a dangerous, once-obscure corner of the world that has recently vaulted to prominence, South of the Clouds tells the story of an American forced to choose, not between right and wrong --"there's no legal here"—but between the predictable and the unknown, between a stale life or one with Mei.

South of The Clouds was published in the United States by Post Hill Press for release on July 17, 2018.