发表于2024-11-08
18mm blues pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Gerald Browne has dazzled readers
worldwide with his bestseUing novels,
including Stone 588 and 19 Purchase
Street. In 18mm BLUES the master of
elegant suspense again displays his un-
matched storytelling finesse~ Set against
the backdrop of the secretive, highly lu-
crative international gem market, 18ram
BLUES is a mystery of murder and re-
venge that reaches from San Francisco s
Potrero Hill to the jasmine-scented coast
of Burma.
Pearls. Cleopatra gave them to Marc
Antony in the most expensive meal in
history. Hindus place them in the mouths
of the dead. And every year, from the
Far East to New York s diamond dis-
trict, they bring billions of dollars on the
open and not-so-open market.
Grady Bowman is a creature of that
market. But Grady Bowman is not the
man he used to be. lle s out of a job and
out of a marriage, and he s madly in love
with a beautiful, eccentric San Francisco
artist who has just tried to kill herself~
Julia Elkins is a changed person, too.
Saved from years of loneliness and her
own despair, she accompanies Grady to
Rangoon and the annual Gem Empo-
rium to help him set up his own gem
business~ Neither Grady nor Julia can
guess that their long journey has become
intertwined with a bloody incident car-
ried out decades before.
Off the coast of Burma a remarkable
discovery was made. Two Japanese
amas--women pearl divers--retrieved a
handful of unheard-of blue pearls, 18 mil-
limeters in diameter. As a reward, they
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18mm blues pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024