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Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:??Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.? ??The Washington Post Book World
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping??s reign, the U.S. ambassador??s son is found dead??his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China??s political elite.
The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery??a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach.
??A graceful rendering of two different and complex cultures, within a highly intricate plot . . . The starkly beautiful landscapes of Beijing and its surrounding countryside are depicted with a lyrical precision.? ??Los Angeles Times Book Review
??Murder and intrigue splash across the canvas of modern Chinese life. . . . A vivid portrait of a vast Communist nation in the painful throes of a sea change.? ??People
??Fascinating . . . that rare thriller that enlightens as well as it entertains.? ??San Diego Union-Tribune
En un lago de Pekín aparece muerto el hijo del embajador norteamericano. El espinoso caso es asignado a una inspectora china y a un fiscal de Los Ángeles... Una impactante novela de intriga que recrea el conflicto entre dos países diametralmente opuestos cuando sus gobiernos se ven obligados a colaborar en pie de igualdad.
En un lago helado de Pekin aparece el cadaver del hijo del embajador norteamericano. La dificil y ardua investigación es asignada a la inspectora Liu Hulan. A miles de kilometros un ayudante de la fiscalía de Los Angeles encuentra en un barco de emigrantes ilegales el cadaver de un Princiè Rojo. el hijo de uno de los hombres mas influyentes de China.... Una impactante novela de intriga que recrea el conflicto que se produce entre dos paises diametralmente opuestos cuando sus gobiernos se ven obligados a colaborar en pie de igualdad.
La detective china Liu Hu–lan y su prometido, el abogado estadounidense David Stark, se ven enfrentados a una asombrosa trama de violencia y conspiración cuando una vieja amiga –de una aldea del interior de China– le pide a Hu–lan que descubra la verdad sobre el sospechoso suicidio de su hija. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my husband, with love
Primeras palabras
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Wing Yun held tightly to his granddaughter's mittened hand as he guided her in slow rhythmic glides across the frozen expanse of Bei Hai Lake just outside the burnished walls of the Forbidden City.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:??Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.? ??The Washington Post Book World
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping??s reign, the U.S. ambassador??s son is found dead??his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China??s political elite.
The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery??a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach.
??A graceful rendering of two different and complex cultures, within a highly intricate plot . . . The starkly beautiful landscapes of Beijing and its surrounding countryside are depicted with a lyrical precision.? ??Los Angeles Times Book Review
??Murder and intrigue splash across the canvas of modern Chinese life. . . . A vivid portrait of a vast Communist nation in the painful throes of a sea change.? ??People
??Fascinating . . . that rare thriller that enlightens as well as it entertains.? ??San Diego Union-Tribune
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