An incalculable fortune in conflict minerals lies on the bed of a lost lake. The lake lies in the middle of a jungle hardly changed since the age of the dinosaurs, while the jungle stands on the slope of an active volcano which has destroyed the...
Die Handlung setzt 1866 in Triest ein. Die mittellosen Gauner Sarcany und Zirone finden auf einem ihrer Spaziergänge durch die Stadt eine Brieftaube, die eine Geheimbotschaft befördert. Sarcany will sehen, ob sie aus der Botschaft Kapital...
In the Book and Sword, Louis Cha revives the legend about the great eighteenth-century Manchu Emperor Qianlong which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and...