Irving Waters’ touching thriller “The Wuhan Mission” introduces us to Xue Lin, a young CIA agent who serves as the protagonist. She must go back to Wuhan to infiltrate a laboratory after fleeing China at the age of thirteen. She has to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from bringing down the world economy in a deadly game of cat and mouse. From Langley to Wuhan, Beijing to New York, and ultimately Milan, the story leads us. The first book in Irving Waters’ spy fiction series is this fascinating story.