Bill Birtles, the last Australian Broadcasting Company correspondent with China (2015-2020), was expelled from the country in September 2020 The book begins the day of his expulsion He was visited by state security officials in the middle of the night as Australian diplomats warned him to get out of the country. He sought refuge in the Australian embassy during a tense stand-off. Covers the Hong Kong protests https: //www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/08/australian-journalists-leave-china-bill-birtles-michael-smith-cheng-lei/