Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today’s China By: Desmond Shum [Audiobook]

Author: Desmond Shum
Narrated by: Tim Chiou

As featured on NPR, and in the Wall Street Journal and media outlets around the world….

​A unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife ​disappeared — and then mysteriously reappeared four years later on the eve of Red Roulette’s publication and global media coverage about it.  

As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different.

Through hard work and sheer tenacity he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China’s male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China’s Communist Party, the so-called red aristocracy, he vaulted into China’s billionaire class. Soon they were developing the massive air cargo facility at Beijing International Airport, and they followed that feat with the creation of one of Beijing’s premier hotels. They were dazzlingly successful, traveling in private jets, funding multi-million-dollar buildings and endowments, and purchasing expensive homes, vehicles, and art.

But in 2017, their fates diverged irrevocably when Desmond, while residing overseas with his son, learned that his now ex-wife Whitney had vanished along with three coworkers.

This is both Desmond’s story and Whitney’s, because she has not been able to tell it herself.

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