Hock G TjoaHock G. Tjoa was born in Singapore to Chinese parents. He studied history at Brandeis and Harvard and taught history and Asian political thought at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He has worked as a corporate banker and lived through reorgaizations and acquisitions. He is married and lives with his family in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. For his third act, Hock turned to writing. In addition to this retelling of a Chinese classic, he has published Agamemnon Must Die, a recreation of Aeschylus' Oresteia and is working on a novel exploring the Book of Job. He has also published The Chinese Spymaster and The Ninja and the Diplomat, two in a series of three spy novels planned. Read More Read Less