I was pleasantly surprised to find how entertaining reading a series of letters could be. I did find myself picturing Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil as John Malkovich and Glenn Close after I found out that's who play them in the 1988 movie by the same title.Now onto the next book!!
Decided to have a change of pace and started reading 'Dragon Bones' by Lisa See.
National Public Radio named Dragon Bones as one of the top ten books of the summer for 2003.
When ancient myths clash with modern technology, the results can be murder.
In Lisa See’s first novel, Flower Net, she introduced one of her most popular and fascinating characters, Liu Hulan. Flower Net was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 1997, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, an Edgar Award nominated novel and Amazon’s #1 thriller of the year. (Guess this will have to be my next read)
Now, in her latest novel DRAGON BONES (Random House 2003), Liu Hulan, an agent for China’s Ministry of Public Security, and her American husband, attorney David Stark, return to investigate murder and archaeological theft at the Three Gorges Dam, one of the most beautiful and unique places on earth. And also one of the most controversial. When completed, the Three Gorges Dam will be the most powerful dam ever built and the biggest project China has undertaken since the building of the Great Wall. Yet, the reservoir formed by the dam will inundate over 2,000 archaeological sites and displace over 2 million people.
The story of DRAGON BONES unfurls like an ancient Chinese landscape scroll. When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangtze River, Hulan and Stark are sent to Site 518 for two very different reasons: Hulan to investigate the death, David to uncover who is stealing artifacts from the site. As Hulan searches for the murderer, a parallel search begins for a missing artifact that can prove to the world that the Chinese civilization dates back 5,000 years. Everyone -- from the Chinese government, to a religious cult, to an unscrupulous American art collector -- wants this relic and will kill to get it. At stake are who will have control of China and maintained stability between China and the United States.
Combining ancient myth and contemporary fears of religious fanaticism and terrorism, DRAGON BONES is a story of love, betrayal, greed, and murder.
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Oops!! Looks like I blew it!! Guess I should have looked at it a little closer and not just pull it off the shelf!! This is the 3rd book in a series. . . and I hate to read things out of order!! And, believe it or not, I have the other 2 as well!! Oh well!!! Guess I'll make an exception this time as I have made good progress into the book already and it is not worth stopping to read the other two and then finish this one.
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