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3) Night heron
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Twenty years after he was caught as a British spy, Peanut escapes a labor camp in northwest China and seeks assistance from a crusading journalist in exchange for military secrets.
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Victor Li novels volume 1
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A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller, bursting with personality and pathos. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur-in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father's secret criminal...
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Ava Lee novels volume 11
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Ava travels to Beijing for the premiere of her secret lover Pang Fai's latest film. After the screening, a distraught Fai tells Ava that she is being blackmailed by senior officials of the China Movie Syndicate. When Fai resists, the threats become increasingly violent and far-reaching. Working alongside Fai and several of her friends, Ava delves deep into the seedy world of the Chinese film industry in an attempt to liberate her lover from the grasp...
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Ava Lee novels volume 15
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When the producer of Tiananmen is held by the Chinese government, which is unhappy with the film's depiction of the infamous massacre and seeking to punish those responsible for its production, Ava, to protect her investment, must find a way for the filmto be released and avoid retribution.
7) Braised pork
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"One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia's mind and won't leave. The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its high-rise apartments to its hidden bars, as her path crosses some of the people who...
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Ava Lee novels volume 16
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"Still reeling from the brutal murder of her close associates, Lau Lau and Chen, Ava Lee embarks on a quest for revenge that takes her from Toronto to Los Angeles to Beijing. Along the way, Ava is aided by some familiar faces and old comrades-in-arms, including Sonny Kwon, Jimmy Li, Lop, and Xu, the mountain master of Shanghai. The search leads first to Ava's old opponent, Mo, the chairman of the China Movie Syndicate, and then to a shadowy figure...
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