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  I want Donald Trump, Volodymir Zelenskyy and Xi Jinping to sell my book.  The novel, The Umbrella Men, was published in 2019 – nearly 6 years ago. I thought it was about the great Bankers’ Crisis of 2008. Simple arithmetic tells us it was about a decade late for it to catch any sort…

Not kowtowing

Chinese State market interference and industrial espionage is at the centre of the plot of The Umbrella Men. The Umbrella Men of the book were Twain’s unreliable bankers (who will lend you their umbrella when the sun is shining, but want it back the minute it begins to rain…), not the brave Umbrella Movement fighters for…


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