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The Master of Rain by Tom Bradby (2002, Hardcover/DJ/1
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780385503976
- Book Title
- Master of Rain
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 26.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
About this product
Product Information
Shanghai, 1926. A city glistening with decadence and rife with corruption--a humid, bustling society at the cultural crossroads of British civil servants, American gun runners, Russian princesses, and Chinese gangsters. For Richard Field, a young Englishman new to the international police force, Shanghai represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. But his naiveté is quickly dashed when he is called to the scene of a brutal crime, in which a young Russian woman, Lena Orlov, has been found sadistically murdered in her bed. Field's idealistic instincts push him to investigate the case, but his attempts are met with apathy--then menace--from his colleagues. He begins to recognize that some cases in Shanghai are intended to remain unsolved, and, in a matter of days, he glimpses the murky depths that lurk beneath a luminous city. Field's drive to find the murderer leads him to Lena's neighbor, Natasha Medvedev. A stunning beauty who fled her charmed life in tsarist Russia, Natasha escaped the Revolution but landed, like many of her counterparts, in a treacherous life in Shanghai. Natasha travels in an elite circle--one that orbits, Field knows, around the city's most feared drug lord, Lu Huang. As his attraction to the beguiling Natasha grows, he is faced with a piercing question: can he trust someone whose only goal is self-preservation? And is it wise to fall in love with a woman who may herself be the next victim? Trusting only his Chicago-hardened American partner, Caprisi, Field follows leads that run into the heart of a lawlessly corrupt city, slowly uncovering a web of deception that will leave him reeling. In The Master of Rain, Tom Bradby weaves a taut, atmospheric crime novel that doles out surprising turns until the last suspenseful page.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385503970
ISBN-13
9780385503976
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1984616
Product Key Features
Book Title
Master of Rain
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
26.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6102.R33m37 2002
Reviews
"As we turn the pages and stray deeper into Tom Bradby's decadent, strangely perfumed world, we grow aware that something sinister lies just beyond the reach of our vision, something we cannot see but that we nevertheless know is there. The Master of Rain is an astonishing, haunting, masterful novel." --Lincoln Child, bestselling coauthor of The Relic "Beneath the surface of this clever book, a thrilling yarn of murder and mayhem, we find a wise, richly layered, and utterly convincing portrait of what was the most evil and fatally fascinating of all the modern world's cities. No one has managed to bring Shanghai so alive, in all its ghastly splendor." --Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman "The Master of Rain is that rare thing: a truly epic crime novel, brilliantly researched and superbly executed." --John Connolly, Shamus Award-winning author of Every Dead Thing "Rich, dark, atmospheric, this fine novel captures time and place perfectly . . . it's a great crime story that ends up in a place you won't predict . . . and a great love story that you desperately hope will end up in the place you predict." --Lee Child, bestselling author of Echo Burning "Rich, resonant, and haunting, The Master of Rain captures the predatory world that was '20s Shanghai with remarkable deftness and fidelity. This compelling work of fiction goes beyond noir to draw us into a society engulfed by evil and corruption." --Stella Dong, author of Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City, 1842-1949 "Tense and rather lush, expertly working the wonderful setting without overplaying the cultural clash: eerily well-suited to these parlous times." --Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-042199
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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