Ghosts of Shanghai: 02: Shadow of the Yangtze
, by Sedgwick, JulianNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781444924497 | 1444924494
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/4/2016
J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun meets Susan Hill's The Woman in Black in a compelling teen thriller ...
Ruby - a Western girl who feels more Chinese than English - and her friend Charlie must follow the Yangtze hundreds of miles upriver, travelling by Chinese junk and rogue steamer, through bandit and ghost haunted countryside - doggedly tracking Moonface as he spirits Charlie's sister Fei off to his home village. Everything is in flux around them: civil war pulsing, with Nationalists, Communists and warlord bandits struggling for control. The river rises and falls, villages spring up and are gone again.
Ruby and Charlie brave a shipwreck and a gunbattle and then take a perilous cliff path to Moonface's lair.