Ergebnis für "shanghai" in Jugendliche & Heranwachsende

Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of a Japanese invasion. Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she’s been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she’s barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course of action after Orion was taken and his memories of Rosalind wiped. Though their marriage might have been a sham, his absence hurts her more than any physical wound. She won’t rest until she gets him back. But with her identity in the open, the task is impossible.

Venduta dalla madre al Re dell’Inferno quando era bambina, Lady Jing è mezza vampira, metà hulijing, uno spirito volpe. In quanto protetta del Re, ha passato gli ultimi novant’anni a svolgere commissioni, evitare le frecciatine delle maliziose cortigiane hulijing e cercare di controllare la sua esplosiva irascibilità. Con risultati altalenanti. Quando Jing scopre che alcuni cortigiani tramano per rubare una preziosa perla di drago al Re, coglie l’occasione per smascherarli, una volta per tutte.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren't thrown off-schedule.