This story of mystery and love takes the reader back to 1954 as the French are struggling to hold onto power in Indochina. When a priceless artifact disappears from a museum in Saigon, the colonial police show little interest. But a young woman, taught by her father to cherish the land and history and culture of Vietnam, is determined to find it, and that puts her at odds with Vietnam's criminal underworld. Soon, the Vietnamese woman and the American journalist she is falling in love with are on the run, caught up in an epic journey through a country at war, in search of the missing art object while trying to evade hired killers.
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