A Devil in Hong Kong
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.---This started off with a slightly disturbing and intriguing chapter...
On a snowy day in the year 88 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had an epiphany: he was not immortal. His jadecarver created the most beautiful jade burial suit in history, finishing just three weeks before the Han Emperor died. When thepriceless two-thousand-year-old jade burial suit suddenly goes missing in modern Hong Kong, a brutal competition to find itensues between rivalChinese, Burmese, and Japanese factions. As they battle for the priceless artifact, a psychotic killer with a Maori tattoo on his face surfacesleaving a trail of dismemberedcorpses strung together like traditional Burmese puppets. Detectives Ian Hamilton and Angela Cheung follow a trail of hacked bodies and terror through contemporaryHong Kong in their search for the killer."
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- Pages: 312 pages
- ISBN: 9781939166937 / 0
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Wow! This book is one I had a hard time putting down. This is not the type of genre I normally read so I was in for a bit of a shock. There was a load of murder in new and bizarre ways. However I was pleased to find that it was described in a way that kept it from getting too grotesque while still giving you the details.I loved how... This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.---This started off with a slightly disturbing and intriguing chapter involving torture, a distinctively tattooed man and an ancient artifact -- a white jade burial suit. Which was enough to get me interested, even if the scene was a told in a heavy-handed manner (and, for the record,... This book has a little bit of everything... there is intrigue, action, history, and even a little romance. Emperor Wu has had an epiphany: he is mortal. Upon finally realizing this, the Emperor commissions a burial suit made out of jade. The suit takes a year to fashion and not long after it is completed, the Emperor dies. And that...
