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Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her tail and a dwindling number of Percocets to get her through her bad...
Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her tail and a dwindling number of Percocets to get her through her bad days.
And she’s about to have some bad days. The immensely powerful—and occasionally homicidal—Shanghai billionaire Sidney Cao has asked Ellie to investigate his son’s suspicious new American business partner. Ellie knows she can’t refuse and is grudgingly swept up into the elite social circles of Sidney’s three children: debauched Guwei, rebellious Meimei and social climber Tiantian. When a waitress is murdered at one of Tiantian’s parties, the last thing Ellie wants is to get sucked into a huge scandal involving China’s rich and powerful. But Ellie quickly becomes the most convenient suspect. She realizes she’ll have to figure out who really did it—and even that might not be enough to save herself.
Media
“Don’t turn the pages too fast. Brackmann’s evocation of China, funny, frustrating, frightening, sometimes tender, and always real, is worth savoring. ”
—Nicole Mones, author of Lost in Translation and The Last Chinese Chef
“Lisa Brackmann’s novel gets off to a fast start and never lets up ... Ellie is a perfect spunky heroine ... be prepared for a wild ride.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Rambunctious, well-plotted ... Readers will be sorry to see the last of Ellie. ”
–Publishers Weekly on Dragon Day
“Set in China, Brackmann always manages to keep you on the edge of your seat and teach you something about that country at the same time. Not to be missed. ”
–Huffington Post on Dragon Day
“Excellent ... Ellie McEnroe, our guide, is a piece of work: an expatriate American veteran of Iraq with a bad leg and a worse attitude ... Brackmann is terrific at evoking both the glitz of modern high-society China and Ellie’s hand-to-mouth existence in some of Beijing’s less reputable corners. ”
—The Seattle Times on Dragon Day
“Like a bullet-train tour of daily life in China, one vignette after another, sometimes verging on poetry. ”
–Salem Macknee, McClatchy News on Dragon Day
“Had me hooked from the very first page ... a tale at once exotic in its details but familiar in its inherent hard-boiled truths. ”
–Criminal Element on Dragon Day
“Edgy ... When Ellie becomes a convenient murder suspect — her business card is found on the body of a waitress at a party — she must navigate China’s elite and their kids, plus corruption on every level, to find the real culprit. ”
–Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
“One of crime fiction’s most successful portrayals of China ... [Ellie] is absolutely convincing, both as a character and as a witness to an unpredictable realm where past, present, and future constantly collide. ”
–The Life Sentence on Dragon Day
“This well-written series not only keeps readers involved in the storyline, it offers some keen insights into artistic freedom in China and the difficulty of managing so many layers of bureaucracy. ”
–Reviewing the Evidence on Dragon Day
“As soon as I read the opening lines of Lisa Brackmann’s new China-set crime thriller, Dragon Day, I knew I was going to enjoy it every bit as much as I had anticipated. At initial glance, the book indulges in the two ultimate China clichés — that “dragon” title and its red cover —but with those first four sentences, Brackmann delivers a big wink to her readers: Don’t worry. You might think you know what’s coming, but you have no idea. ”