Chasing Chi

It began as furtive tip, grew to fevered investigation, and climaxed with midnight airport arrests to prevent U.S. military secrets from being lost forever, and it all centered around a diminutive, bespectacled engineer from Kwang-Tung, China. Who was Chi Mak? A brilliant immigrant engineer eager to live in the West and enjoy the fruits of his labor? Or Mao’s Marxist soldier, itching to steal U.S. Navy secrets to leapfrog China’s navy to parity with, and eventual supremacy over, America’s Seventh Fleet? Chasing Chi is a compelling read and first-person account of the trailblazing investigation and prosecution of Chi Mak and his family and friends. For decades, they stole sensitive U.S. military and commercial technologies for the Peoples’ Republic of China. FBI Special Agent James Gaylord, who directed the investigation, recounts this mesmerizing tale by drawing upon his eyewitness experiences and notes, case evidence, investigative files, and court records