It’s 1997, and Shanghai is coming back from the dead. New skyscrapers are reaching to the sky and everyone’s out to get money by any means.
Private investigator Lou Yichin, sent to the city on behalf of a wronged wife, becomes witness to the strange and brutal murder of a Taiwanese antique dealer. Why is the body laid out in the shape of an eagle? And what are the connections to a group of Manchu zealots bent on making their people rise up again and recover their former glory as rulers of the Chinese Empire?
P.I. Lou is determined to get to the truth, if only he can clear his name first. And tear himself away from the arms of a beautiful paleontologist, who just might be breaking through the mystery of his heart, while on her way solving a century-old evolutionary puzzle.
The plots and its ending will surprise those who enjoy a great whodunit story. Exotic locales and Eastern intrigues would bring the global readers face to face with the modern Middle Kingdom in great transformation for the first time!
Private investigator Lou Yichin, sent to the city on behalf of a wronged wife, becomes witness to the strange and brutal murder of a Taiwanese antique dealer. Why is the body laid out in the shape of an eagle? And what are the connections to a group of Manchu zealots bent on making their people rise up again and recover their former glory as rulers of the Chinese Empire?
P.I. Lou is determined to get to the truth, if only he can clear his name first. And tear himself away from the arms of a beautiful paleontologist, who just might be breaking through the mystery of his heart, while on her way solving a century-old evolutionary puzzle.
The plots and its ending will surprise those who enjoy a great whodunit story. Exotic locales and Eastern intrigues would bring the global readers face to face with the modern Middle Kingdom in great transformation for the first time!
