Following the success of his Ultimate Series, Michael Winstead returns with a stand-alone legal thriller, The China Play, now available on Amazon. The audiobook, read by the author, will be available on Amazon/Audible in October 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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