A team of Chinese Communist assassins comes to America to kill a young Math genius and his CIA protector. The gangs of Milwaukee take the ChiComs on. China In this darkly comic thriller, young Bernie Weber is about to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, the most difficult problem in mathematics, which is also the key to breaking China's new cryptology. The CIA sends two incompetent agents to protect him, but they are entrapped in a sex scandal. Only CIA agent Audrey Knapp is left to hold off the killers, but she can't do it by herself. When she recruits the Black and Latino gangs of Milwaukee to defend Bernie, the Chinese are in for a surprise.
China Code by Matthew Flynn is a highly entertaining and even scholarly thriller. It combines excitement and mystery with local color of Milwaukee. The descriptions of the characters are creative and even sublime. The discussions of mathematics are erudite and fit into the story perfectly. Once you start reading it is impossible to put down. Truly extraordinary!!