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  • By: James Thayer
  • Narrated by: Will Damron
  • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)
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Summary

In 1912, John Wade and his brother, William - children of the American consul - were kidnapped off the street in Chungking, China, and raised in the house of Eunuch Chang, the city's master criminal. Twenty-five years later, John is the eunuch's most valuable ward, a trained assassin and swindler, and William has become a talented forger.

On the brink of World War II, China is in chaos. When William betrays Eunuch Chang and escapes to central China, a place of ferocious warlords and bandits, John begins a desperate search to save his brother, while Eunuch Chang hunts them both.

©2016 James Thayer (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Historical International Mystery & Crime Crime Thrillers
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  • 10-08-23

Exciting, thrilling, and a bit sad

I loved the story. The plot is great, the timing almost perfect and the characters reasonably well developed. The story gets a bit rushed towards the end. The story brings the reader right into a China in struggle, The characters go through similar struggles always torn between ideologies, brutal violence, and love. The narrator does a great job by meandering like the big river Yangtze between urgency and coolness keeping the thrill of the story as sharp as a knives' edge.

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