Glenda D. (ggid) reviewed on 12/1/2006 + 125 more book reviews

This was so good, I couldn't put it down. I have got to find more books by Lisa See.

"HIGH VOLTAGE SEXUAL SPARKS....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.

The first body was found in ice: the U.S. ambassador's son, entombed in a frozen lake outside Beijing's Forbidden City.
Thousands of miles away, in the heat-baked hold of a Chinese smuggling ship, another corpse is uncovered, this one a Red Prince, a scion of China's political elite. Suspecting the deaths are linked, the American and Chinese governments pair ambitious attorney David Stark and brilliant detective Liu Hulan to uncover a killer and a conspiracy.

From the teeming streets of Beijing to Los Angeles and back, David and Hulan are caught in a perilous net of politics, organized crime, family loyalties, and their own passion. As, one by one, those close to the investigation are killed, David and Hulan face a firestorm of evil, while the killer they seek is as close as the secrets they keep from each other.

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