![]() ![]() ![]() The good guys vie with some very threatening and determined competitors for the priceless Ming Dynasty tablet. And all of that personal emotion takes place amid a trip by plane, train, car, rickshaw, even a short outing by boat, through China, more particularly Beijing, Suzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an. Think of silk dresses that come in all colors, and of a most genuine smile and dancing eyes that stop their motion now and then to melt Clive’s heart, as if it were butter. The basic action revolves around the lead character, a sort of Humphrey Bogart, Clive Allan, and a couple of companions from Boston, and the mysterious Chinese beauty Wei Wei, whose mixture of sensual and intellectual seductiveness is its own story. The two qualities that distinguish Eric Goodman’s entertaining novel The Color of Jadeite, a page-turning thriller, are the ingenuity of the plot and the almost travel book settings in which the frenetic characters explore for clues to the hidden treasure of a one-of-a-kind ancient jadeite tablet. ![]() Goodman, The Color of Jadeite, Apprentice House Press, Loyola University Maryland, 2020, ISBN: 10-978-1-62720-286-2 260 pages ![]()
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