Qi (Richard Ireton Series, Book 1) Review

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(More customer reviews)"David Aikman's QI (which apparently is pronounced "chee") is a
suspenseful tour through the violent secret society underworld of
contemporary south China as a fictional coup is about to break in
Guangzhou out that will bring war with Taiwan. The hero fills a
rather unlikely professional role -- he's a journalist -- but as he
gets drawn inexorably into the coils of a complicated political plot,
he's every bit as interesting as your average thriller protagonist.
Of course, there IS a CIA character in the book, who's not the
derring-do type and more of a frustrated bureaucrat. There's also a
luscious Filipina girlfriend, who annoyingly for our hero Richard
Ireton, is infected with a dose of religion by a nosy African-American
missionary in Hong Kong and won't share her favors with him. That
produces some sparks, of course.
I read this book in two nights and couldn't put it down. In
addition to the fascinating story, I found author Aikman had packed in
a lot of really interesting stuff about China. On the whole, though,
the thought kept coming to me: Hollywood has gotta turn this into a
movie."

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Richard Ireton is a Hong Kong-based foreign correspondent for an American weekly news magazine. When he is sent to Guangdong, the Chinese province adjacent to Hong Kong, to investigate the disappearance of Chuck McHale, a missing American, he discovers there are dangerous new political currents flowing through South China. In the middle of these developments are practitioners of Qigong, a Taoist meditation and martial arts movement, who are rallying around their Great Master Wu. These fiercely anti-foreign Qigong adherents have allied with renegade forces of the Chinese army, and Ireton learns that together they pose a dangerous new threatto peace in Asia and relations with the United States. Ireton's hunt for McHale, who has run afoul of these Qigong army elements, brings him into the heart of China's underground "house church" movement, where McHale has sought refuge.

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