White-knuckle publishing

What do you do when the ground shakes on press day?

At the beginning of this year, Sutherland House signed Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampson to write an account of China’s treatment of the two innocent Canadian nationals, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who were jailed in retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Blanchfield, who has covered the story for Canadian Press, a…