Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is twenty years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background a bittersweet, triangular love affair develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. And all the while, she is trying to uncover the truth of her past, unaware of the danger this might pose to her. Who is Henry Manners, the mysterious man who once wrote to her mother, and who she kws w lives in China? Running in parallel is the extraordinary story of Yu-Fu-kuei, a Chinese revolutionary working as a Communist spy. She and Catherine met when they were at Oxford immediately after the Great War, and the friendship is deep and permanent. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine, igrant of a history steeped in hatred, unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at thing to wreak their revenge. And Yu-Fu-kuei discovers that love might be the strongest weapon that any warrior has.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hodder Paperback, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
GTIN
9780340828151
ISBN-10
0340828153
ISBN-13
9780340828151
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96467001
Product Key Features
Author
Adam Williams
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Dimensions
Weight
483g
Depth
45 mm
Height
197mm
Width
128mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
45mm
Literary Period/Movement
0340828153
Audience
General
Content Note
1 Map
Author Biography
Adam Williams, whose family has lived in China since the late nineteenth century, was born and raised in Hong Kong. For the last eighteen years he has been representative in Beijing of a Far East trading conglomerate. In 1999 he received an OBE for services to Sino-British trade. Adam lives in China and Italy and has three children. To find out more, visit Adam's website www.adam-williams.net or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/_AdamWilliams.