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House of Eight Orchids

By: James Thayer
Narrated by: Will Damron
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In 1912, John Wade and his brother, William - children of the American consul - were kidnapped off the street in Chungking, China, and raised in the house of Eunuch Chang, the city's master criminal. Twenty-five years later, John is the eunuch's most valuable ward, a trained assassin and swindler, and William has become a talented forger.

On the brink of World War II, China is in chaos. When William betrays Eunuch Chang and escapes to central China, a place of ferocious warlords and bandits, John begins a desperate search to save his brother, while Eunuch Chang hunts them both.

©2016 James Thayer (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Historical International Mystery & Crime Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime China Suspense
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I loved the story. The plot is great, the timing almost perfect and the characters reasonably well developed. The story gets a bit rushed towards the end. The story brings the reader right into a China in struggle, The characters go through similar struggles always torn between ideologies, brutal violence, and love. The narrator does a great job by meandering like the big river Yangtze between urgency and coolness keeping the thrill of the story as sharp as a knives' edge.

Exciting, thrilling, and a bit sad

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