Flower Net

Title: Flower Net Author: Lisa See ISBN: 9780060175276 Publisher: Harpercollins Published: 1997 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Suspense & Thriller 1640611 Publisher Description: In "Flower Net, " Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's is underscored.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. Almost simultaneously, American officials find a ship adrift in the storm-churned waters off Southern California. No one is surprised to find the fetid hold crammed with hundreds of undocumente