'God's Double Agent' Tells Riveting Story of Crusader for Human Rights in China
About a year ago, Bob Fu played a critical role in a sensational human rights case. He testified before a congressional committee about the fate of the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and arranged for Chen to testify by phone from his hospital room in Beijing.
The event is one of the climactic stories in God’s Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian’s Fight for Freedom by Fu with Nancy French, but it is just one chapter in an extraordinary life.
Although television networks and newspapers around the world showed images of Fu holding up his iPhone so the committee could hear, the media could not capture the extent of the behind-the-scenes maneuvers Fu had orchestrated to bring Chen’s plight to light.
In fact, Chen is only one of scores of political dissidents and persecuted Christian leaders Fu has helped guide to freedom, leading major newspapers like The New York Times,...