As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past. Soon Charlie finds himself navigating a course that leads him through the choppy waters of transporting human cargo, and right into the seedy underworld of the Northwest’s sex trade. As the threads of this compelling and engrossing novel intertwine and converge, a landscape of impossible choices. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. But they find more bodies instead-all young, all female, all Hispanic. A historical and romantic narrative, alternating between the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II and a time roughly ten years later that. Together, the pair plunge beneath the waters of Puget Sound to seek out any clues about the identity of the dead woman and how she wound up there. No stranger to loss, Charlie finds it impossible not to help them-even though it could mean putting his new romance in jeopardy.Ĭharlie enlists a friend, Raven, a Native-American salvage diver. The Bayneses themselves lost a child years ago.

to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. These plans are quickly docked when boating friends Marvin and Angela Baynes come to him with a horrifying discovery-the body of an unidentified young woman impaled on the flukes of their boat anchor. Lees latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from Penguin. Still reeling from the untimely death of his wife, Charlie begins to warm to the idea of a second chance at true love with new girlfriend Kate Sullivan. This time, he is hot on the trail of a human trafficking scheme that begins in Mexico…and ends in murder. Lee Magna, 2010 - English - 400 pages 80 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified Its 1952 and. Charlie Noble, former-Coast-Guard-officer-turned-marine-PI, is back.

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