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"Having her own detective agency would give her
the freedom she possessed always longed for. It
would also give her the opportunity to show those people
who shunned her that she could achieve success. People
were getting rich. They owned or operated property, money,
business, and autos. With new independence and opportunities
emerged new offences. There would be much that
she could do."
Current, Beijing. Mei Wang is today's, independent woman. She's her own apartment. She owns a car. She's her own business with that a lot of modern of goods -- a guy secretary. Her short career with China's prestigious Ministry for General public Security has given her personal insight in to the complicated and arbitrary world of Beijing's law enforcement. But it is her intuition, attention, and her uncanny knack for hearing things said -- and unsaid -- that produce Mei Beijing's first successful female detective agency.
Mei is not a stranger to the dark area of China. She was six years of age when she last saw her father behind the wire fence of one of Mao's remote labor camps. Perhaps as a result, Mei eschews the energy plays and ethnical mores -- guanxi -- her sister and mom live by...for better and then for worse.
Mei's family friend "Uncle" Chen hires her to discover a Han dynasty jade of great value: he is convinced the part was looted from the Luoyang Museum through the Cultural Revolution -- when the Red Guards swarmed the pavements, destroying so many traces of the past -- and that it's currently on the market on the dark-colored market. The hunt for the eye of jade leads Mei through banquet halls and again alleys, seedy playing dens and cheap noodle pubs near the Forbidden City. Given the jade's provenance and its own journey, Mei knows to take care of the research as a most sensitive matter; she cannot know, however, that case will force her to delve not only into China's brutal background, but also into her family's dark secrets and into her own tragic parting from the man she adored in equivalent parts.
The first novel in an exhilarating new detective series, The Eye of Jade is both a thrilling puzzle and a sensual and exciting quest through modern China.
