On today’s program, Hansen Shi joins us to talk about his debut novel, The Expat.
The book follows a frustrated Ivy League grad named Michael, who follows a mysterious woman to China with the promise of an exciting job offer. Once in Beijing, his contact vanishes and Michael finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous web of industrial espionage and counterintelligence.
Hansen Shi is a writer and technology investor. He served on the Fiction Board of the Harvard Advocate and currently works as a venture capitalist in New York City. The Expat is his first novel.