5/19/2023 0 Comments Dragon bones by lisa seeSoon, Hulan and Stark are heading up the Yangtze, to the construction site of the massive Three Gorges Dam, to look into the death of an American archaeologist. Hulan shoots and kills the mother-the right thing to do, perhaps, but still not something her bosses are particularly happy about. At the outset here, Hulan is monitoring a Tiananmen Square demonstration of a Falun Gong–ish cult when one of the demonstrators pulls a knife and tries to kill her daughter in a sign of protest. But she also makes them tricky, to say the least, for her husband David Stark, American lawyer in private practice in Beijing and frequent investigative partner of Hulan’s. Heroine Liu Hulan is a tough cookie who makes things difficult for the criminals she goes after. This is the third in See’s series ( Flower Net The Interior, not reviewed) set in the Middle Kingdom, and it drags a fair amount of baggage forward. A Chinese police inspector and her American lawyer husband venture up the Yangtze River to investigate murder and corruption.
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