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1) Nine dragons
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
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English
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The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
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Asian saga volume 2
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English
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"There can only be one Tai-Pan."
Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world's largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan-Supreme Leader-of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan's rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan's. But it is not only silks...
3) Dead sleep
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English
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Photojournalist Jordan Glass is still recovering from the disappearance of her twin sister, when in a Hong Kong museum, she comes face to face with a painting of what may be her sister's dead body. Thus begins the search for a serial killer.
4) Necropolis
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To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
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Jake Grafton novels volume 8
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English
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"When the U.S. government sends Jake Grafton to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal, he takes his wife, Callie, along. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and moreover, the consul-general, Tiger Cole, is an old friend from those days." "The Graftons quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder...
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Holly-Mei books volume 1
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English
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Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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English
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The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong ... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--
Three very different American women livie in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident...
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Nick Foley thrillers volume 2
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English
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Former Navy SEAL Nick Foley reluctantly agrees to help investigate when American CIA operative Peter Yu goes missing in China. But when Yu's mutilated body washes up on a beach near Hong Kong, along with dozens of other victims, the case takes a macabre turn. Suddenly, Nick finds himself embroiled in another bio-terrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard counter-terrorism unit and the Chinese CDC, this time involving illegally-harvested...
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 3
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English
Description
British agent Charles Ferguson is sent to recover the stolen Chunking Covenant. In it Mao TseTung agreed to extend British rule in Hong Kong for another century if the Communists won. Publication of the document by hostile elements could spark riots in Hong Kong and lead to armed intervention by China.
12) Pearl Moon
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English
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Two high-powered women whose father was a U.S. pilot during the Vietnam War finally discover each other. One is Maylene Kwan, born out of wedlock to a Chinese woman, the other is Allison Whitaker, born from a marriage in the U.S. They are brought together by respective love affairs on a job in Hong Kong. By the author of Happy Stone.
15) 9 dragons
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
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Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. Harry has stumbled into the middle of a kidnapping. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy her back. Bosch drops everything to go to his...
16) The travel game
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
To avoid a nap, Tad plays his favorite quiet game with his aunt and together their imaginations take them from their home in Buffalo, New York, to Hong Kong.
17) Killer thriller
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everybody loves Ian Ludlow's action novels - especially the CIA - because the spies know something the public doesn't: his fictional plots have a frightening tendency to come true. Ian is in Hong Kong with his resourceful assistant Margo French to research his wildest story yet - a deadly global conspiracy by Chinese intelligence to topple the United States. What Ian doesn't know is that his horrifying scenario is happening and that the Chinese mistakenly...
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City of dragons (Jaimal Yogis) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real - especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace doesn't understand. And that puts them both...