Riding a Tiger: The Self-Criticism of Arnold Fisher

English teacher Arnold Fisher is arrested and detained in a Beijing police station. Fisher's participation in the building of an illegal capitalist empire and the death of a cadre has left him in a tight spot. In the course of his self-criticism and deposition to the Chinese Ministry of Justice, punctuated by his captor's occasional questions, Fisher discovers who has betrayed him, and whom he has, in turn, betrayed.