After a three-year hiatus, Michael Winstead returns with a new legal thriller, The China Play, now available on Amazon. Two more novels are planned for release in 2026.
Attorney Oakley Hitchcock, suspended from practicing law for one year, returns to his family’s farm in south Georgia to wait out his suspension. “Hitch” soon discovers a reverse mortgage scheme has entrapped his parents and dozens of other landowners in a plot to seize valuable farmland.
In The China Play, Author Michael Winstead chronicles a foreign power’s long play to obtain rare earth minerals, abetted by a prominent domestic law firm. As they uncover the conspiracy, Hitch and legal assistant Natalie Anderson find themselves targets of a faceless force willing to kill to keep its secret.
The China Play delivers a chilling glimpse of the battle for rare resources and world supremacy, examining what will happen if a foreign country exploits the very legal system designed to protect us.
Michael Winstead’s fifth novel, The China Play is available on Amazon.
MICHAEL WINSTEAD 
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