05/28/2026
Thriller Thursday spotlight: The Last Mandarin by Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung.https://manchester.biblionix.com/catalog/biblio/2758685717
Penny joins forces with award-winning Canadian journalist Fung for a thriller in which an estranged mother and daughter must put aside their differences to prevent a terrorist attack that could disrupt the fragile peace among the world's superpowers. Is the Chinese government poised to perpetrate an act of global terrorism? Vivien Li, a former Chinese dissident who escaped the country in the late 1980s after Tiananmen Square and became an activist for a free China, is called in to advise the U.S. president. But what she says is unexpected. She’s not entirely sure China is the villain. While the strained relationship between Vivien and her daughter Alice forms the emotional core of the book, readers will be captivated by the race-against-time structure of the story. (Booklist Online)
