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    Dragon Day

    By Lisa Brackmann

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    About this ebook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoho Crime
    Release dateAug 18, 2015
    ISBN9781616953461
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    Dragon Day
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    Lisa Brackmann

    Lisa Brackmann is the critically acclaimed author of the Ellie McEnroe novels—Rock Paper Tiger, Hour of the Rat, Dragon Day—and the thriller Getaway. Her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Travel+Leisure and CNET. She lives in San Diego with a couple of cats, far too many books and a bass ukulele.

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    • 3/5
      I really like Lisa Brackmann's Ellie McEnroe character. Mostly because of what she's not- she isn't a spy, assassin, ninja, martial arts expert, beauty queen, or female Reacher. What she is, though (war vet with a damaged leg, expat in China, speaker of Chinese, beer drinker, supporter of various Chinese characters who get themselves in hot water with authorities), keeps her in enough trouble to make Brackmann's novels interesting.

      Dragon Day is pretty good. Brackmann isn't a great writer but her style is a match for her main character- sort of blue-collar, nothing fancy. The plot is decent: Ellie is asked to do a seemingly easy task for a powerful Chinese man to whom she owes a favor, and with that the story if off and running. There are gangsters involved along with several varieties of Chinese police, murders, dissident activity, romantic entanglements that often don't seem very romantic, and lots of danger. China seems like a really complicated place to just travel to and walk around in, much less if there are crimes and investigations involved. I have to admit that I needed to page backwards in the book a few times to make sure I understood which characters were which.

      All in all, the conclusion was fine in that Ellie survived and is still in China, so she's ready, I assume, to get herself back in trouble. Dragon Day is a nice addition to the series and well worth a read.