I was given for Christmas a vintage Chinese cook book, and I mean the good Chinese cooking. Not what you get here in the United States. Needless to say it's something that I wanted to find a book for in order to cook from it, and of course a few other people did as well… So therefore I chose the following book:
Flower Net
By
Lisa See
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s reign, the U.S. ambassador’s son is found dead–his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China’s political elite.
The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery–a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach.
I hope you will all follow along! I also can't wait to read another Lisa See book, as I do love her writing style. Stay tuned for a recipe following this post!!
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