Showing Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann

American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is living in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur a member of a Chinese Muslim minority at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding Ellie for information. They say the Uighur is a terrorist. Ellie doesn t know what s going on, but she must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side in particular, a mysterious organization operating within a popular online role-playing game. As she tries to elude her pursuers, she s haunted by memories of Iraq. Is what she did and saw there at the root of the mess she s in now?"