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Three Gorges Dam Kindle Edition

by Thomas V. Harris (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.0 3.0 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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CHINA'S WESTERN FRONTIER IS A POWDER KEG.

ITS BUDDHIST AND MUSLIM MINORITIES ARE ABOUT TO LIGHT THE FUSE.

Michael Brannigan and the People's Republic of China are concluding a triumphant week. The PRC's top energy consultant has fallen in love with Australian geophysicist Kylie Ryan while traveling in Xinjiang Province. President Lao Ming is in Beijing hosting a game-changing summit with the United States. CNN is broadcasting the new reality: the Communist juggernaut has surpassed the US.

Brannigan’s train is retracing Marco Polo's historic journey. When the Silk Road Express reaches the Far East’s Far West, his team of engineers will assist the Chinese in developing the world's richest oil fields. Brannigan is heading deeper into the Taklamakan Desert as President Lao's motorcade approaches the end of its parade route. In a few hours, Lao will celebrate his victory in the Hall of Purple Light.

All that changes in two blinks of an eye. China's Young Turks and Fighting Monks rock the country. Caught up in the violence, Brannigan's love affair meets a tragic end. The Reds and rebels engage in an escalating cycle of provocations and reprisals. In the midst of the turmoil, Brannigan returns to China for a hush-hush assignment at Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric facility. There he overcomes his demons and finds lasting happiness. Everything is coming up aces.

UNTIL THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS.
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About the Author

THOMAS V. HARRIS lives on Mercer Island, a few miles east of Seattle, and on Highland Lake in Bridgton, Maine. A native New Yorker, he graduated from Harvard College with a degree in political science and Cornell Law School with a specialization in International Law. Mr. Harris is a Pacific Northwest trial lawyer who currently serves as a full-time mediator at Washington Arbitration & Mediation Service (WAMS). He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the American Board of Trial Advocates. Lexis publishes his legal textbook Washington Insurance Law (3rd Ed. 2010). Tom's website is www.thomasvharris.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07B8P2NR9
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BookBaby; 1st edition (March 5, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 675 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 433 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.0 3.0 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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3 out of 5 stars
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fast moving drama
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2018
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Could not put it down, multiple plots all insightful author shows diverse depth of knowledge on aspects of the story
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Clare O'Beara
2.0 out of 5 stars Three Gorges Dam
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018
I do admire what the author tries to do with this book, but I can't love his style. We follow the Chinese Premier around, car, bodyguards, generals and all, for chapters at the start, while an American trade delegation kicks their heels in a figurative antechamber and Tibetan protestors practice self-immolation on live news. We alternate between Chinese soldiers trying to put down dissent with brutal force and Michael Brannigan, an American engineer here for the oil and gas.

When the dissenters attack the Silk Road train, with its tourist-luring sumptuous furnishings, the tale pulls together. Michael Brannigan survives, tries to aid others and later turns out to be a helicopter pilot; useful if you want to get a bird's eye view of the Three Gorges Dam, far from ideally built in a tremor-prone fault zone. Kylie Ryan, an Aussie lady and geophysicist who falls for his charms, is also a pilot, which doesn't initially matter as she is seriously wounded in the terrorist attack on the train.

As this is a thriller much time is spent establishing who might want to do what and why. Fairly dramatic imagery is employed non-stop. Don't expect to like what you see.

The style, as I say, is choppy, with a particularly odd feature being conversations of up to sixty one-lines, which is repeated over and over and over. I was wondering if the author had dictated this work. Also the tale is told in present tense, sometimes reading awkwardly as the narrator has to tell us what had happened the previous night. I would enjoy this well-researched story better if the writing flowed. Also - that is no way to end a story. Other readers may enjoy this more than I did.

I downloaded an e-ARC from Net Galley. This is an unbiased review.
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patrick Okell
1.0 out of 5 stars A bore from frot to back
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2019
Little understanding of Chinese politics and even if you were completely new to the country the story itself is unconvincing, choppy and ultimately absurd
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Carolyn
3.0 out of 5 stars and there was a touching love story with many obstacles
Reviewed in Canada on April 25, 2018
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I predict that this first time novelist could have a successful future in writing action thrillers.

The action and disaster scenes are powerful. However I felt the tension was diluted by too many locations and by supporting characters not fully developed beyond their names and/or nationalities and political agendas.

The plot I felt was too ambitious with storylines too far ranging. I felt I was not as fully engaged in parts of the story as I should have been. Ranging from Tibet with its fighting monks and civilian dissidents, to the Uighur region with its separatists around Kashgar, to the Chinese president and his advisers and staff in Beijing, to the 3 Gorges Dam. Also the settings move to Shanghai, with scenes in Hong Kong, Sydney and also touching on a couple of other Asian countries outside China.

I felt that Brannigan made a well developed and believable hero, and there was a touching love story with many obstacles. With Brannigan absent in some chapters I found my interest waning.. I thought those chapters belonged in another book where the various rebels and their beliefs were more strongly portrayed. As I had travelled in the Uighur region in the far west of China and through Tibet, I hoped to read more about those oppressed people, but that is for a separate book, hopefully by the same author.
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