China Maroc · Book 1
Jian
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 510
- ISBN-13
- 9780449205976
- Type
- novel
About this book
Jian is the book that started it all: the first entry in Eric Van Lustbader's China Maroc series, published in 1985, running 510 pages. It precedes Shan in the reading order. The series ran from 1985 to 1986 across 2 books.
Its place in China Maroc
Jian is book 1 in the China Maroc series. It is followed by Shan. See the full China Maroc reading order.
A shorter, denser companion to Van Lustbader's Nicholas Linnear books, the China Maroc novels follow Jake Maroc, a top agent of the Quarry -- a secretive American intelligence agency -- as he's drawn into the fight over Hong Kong's future in the last years of British colonial rule. Jian (1985) sets four ancient pieces of jade as the key to a decades-old scheme, with Jake caught between his sworn enemy Nichiren and the calculating Communist minister Shi Zilin, while the KGB, Chinese intelligence and the Americans…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780449205976
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780586066843
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345466815