Beijing Ding-A-Ling: Mao of the CIA - George Arnold

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Résumé :
The President of the United States, at the request of the Premier of the People's Republic of China, dispatches Buzzer Louis and the Cats of the CIA to help track down the brains behind Ar-Chee's opium smuggling ring. You see, Ling Ting Tong, a brilliant, multi-lingual porcupine, is known to be hiding in the Chinese capital. Having captured Mr. Ling's front man, Ar-Chee the panda, in Moscow, it's now up to the clandestine CIA cats to find Ling Ting Tong and put an end to the smuggling of opium from Afghanistan for resale along the Pacific Rim and in Moscow.

Biographie:
Navajo Nightmare is George's 25th book and 10th mystery from Eakin Press since 2002. He never intended to be an author, though. After dropping out of Engineering School (boring, boring, boring) he switched to journalism for BJ and MA degrees in mass communication from The University of Texas at Austin.
Following graduation, he entered the advertising, public
relations, and sales promotion business with a small
agency in Dallas. At various times, he served as Vice
President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial
Officer, and President and CEO.
Under his leadership, the agency grew from dollars3.5
million in billings and 13 employees to dollars58 million
with 50 employees. Client campaigns under his
direction were awarded 144 significant awards, including
a Silver Anvil from the Public Relations Society of
America, an international CLIO for excellence in
advertising, several EFFIES from the New York Chapter
of the American Marketing Association, and multiple
Silver Spurs from the Texas Public Relations Association.
During his 33-year career in the advertising agency
business in Dallas, he wrote everything from broadcast
commercials to print ads, to outdoor boards, to corporate
annual reports--even some terrible doggerel filled with
even-worse puns.
At the end of 1998, he retired. And soon became bored
enough to write the story of a group of his friends who'd
kept in touch for decades following high school. I never thought of it as a book, he says. I did it strictly for the amusement of my friends.
That anti-boredom amusement turned out to be Growing Up Simple: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950s. An instant award-winning success and the first of his many books. In addition to three nonfiction novels and 10 mysteries, he has written 12 semi-bilingual, fun and funny international adventure stories featuring the languages and lifestyles of Mexico, Italy, Argentina, France, Germany, Russia, China, Egypt, Brazil, and Japan. The Cats of the CIA set.
He was elected to the American Advertising Federation's Southwest Hall of Fame in 2010.
He has been recognized in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Business and Finance, and with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.
George and his wife of 55 years live in a suburb of Dallas. They have four children and seven grandchildren.