A Death in China

by Carl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbano Narrated by James Yaegashi

Overview

From Carl Hiaasen and the distinguished foreign correspondent Bill Montalbano comes a relentless novel of treachery and murder set in the clenched society of China, where even tomorrow's weather is a state secret. David Wang, a Chinese-American art historian, dies shortly after a visit to an ancient tomb housing priceless artifacts. Officials diagnose death by duck, a fatal confluence of culture shock and rich cuisine. But Wang's friend Tom Stratton suspects something more sinister, especially after the dead man's brother, a highly placed Party official, tries to have him kidnapped. From a nightmarish interrogation to assassination by cobra, A Death in China takes readers on a trip with no rest stops through a world of claustrophobic mistrust and terrifying danger.

Editorial Reviews

Herbert Mitgang

[An] imaginative thriller. -- The New York Times Book Review

Library Journal

Published in 1984, 1981, and 1982, respectively, these novels feature action, intrigue, violence, and murder. In the Hitchcock vein, they also portray protagonists who are just ordinary people--a professor, an architect, and a fishing-boat captain--who are dragged into extraordinary circumstances. LJ's reviewer found Death in China "tautly written," adding that Montalbano and Hiaasen have a "fine flair for characters and settings" (LJ 4/1/84).

New York Times Book Review

"A tutly written, fast-paced thriller that captures the real China."

Time

"A terrific story... Montalbano ad Hiassen hae brought it off splendidly."

Wall Street Journal

"Montalbano and Hiaasen have created a Middle Kingdom maelstrom of intrigues, deceits, lusts and carnards. Like China itself, what often seems to be too implausible turns out to be real."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169937206
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	03/30/2012
Edition description:	Unabridged

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