A Chicago homicide detective searching for a kidnapped young girl in 1930 colonial Shanghai unearths an unlikely international conspiracy...

For disillusioned Detective Jake Puccini, the shortest distance between a cop and a crime is never a straight line. In order to find the young girl in his last few days of an enforced police exchange program in China, Jake must first re-evaluate a stagnant multiple murder case he thinks he is leaving behind. He must also determine for Police Commissioner Gibbons why a high profile councilman, who allegedly committed suicide, was shot post mortem. Even more puzzling, Jake must determine how communist organizer Kang Sheng, in masquerade and wanted by Gibbons, appears to know his every move.

As Jake delves into three seemingly disparate events, he is unwittingly drawn into a precarious John Le Carre-esque cloak-and-dagger game by both Gibbons and Kang, discovering that virtually everybody he knows is not who they appear to be...

When The Fox Dies Even The Rabbit Weeps is a crime thriller of novel proportions inspired by historical facts and actual characters.

About Edgar Bailitis:

Edgar Bailitis is a philosophy graduate from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He subsequently studied Chinese language, history and culture for five years at Sydney University. His honors thesis was entitled "Sun Tze Ping Fa [The Art of War]: An anthology of China's ancient military philosophy". For those who do not know, The Art of War is a renowned ancient Chinese book on military theory. After that, Edgar declined to be recruited by ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service). Instead, he lingered for many years in the field of law enforcement.

Like Jake Puccini in his novel, Edgar is rather cynical. How much of an author is in the character he creates, you may well ask? The answer is, a lot, because just like when you open your mouth, every time you write, more often than not you are actually saying something about yourself. Edgar wrote his novel just to see if he could, after reading somewhere that the only book worth reading is the one you write yourself.