In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one
woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in
China's Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers
and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her
trapped between her country's distant past and her own recent history.
The case starts at a rally for a controversial cult that ends suddenly
in bloodshed, and leads to the apparent murder of an American
archaeologist, which officials want to keep quiet. And haunting Hulan's
investigation is the possible theft of ancient dragon bones that might
alter the history of civilization itself.
Getting to the bottom of ever-spiraling events, Hulan unearths more
scandals, confronts more murderers, and revives tragic memories that
shake her tormented marriage to its core. In the end, she solves a
mystery as big, unruly, and complex as China itself.
Praise for Dragon Bones
**
"Stays with you long after the conventional thriller is
forgotten."--The Washington Post Book World**
"Lisa See is one of the classier practitioners of . . . the
international thriller. . . . She draws her characters . . . with
convincing depth, and offers up documentary social detail that reeks of
freshly raked muck. See's China is as vivid as Upton Sinclair's
Chicago."--The New York Times Book Review
