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Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin's daughter he cannot forget. Over five decades, Joseph's life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigon's most influential families, the French colonist Devrauxs, and the native Trans - and inevitably with Vietnam's turbulent, war torn fate.

Vietnam: Danielle è una piccola orfana, una delle tante vite stravolte dalla guerra. A pochi giorni dalla fine del conflitto, viene adottata da un funzionario inglese, in Asia per indagare su un traffico d'armi. L'uomo sa che l'unica speranza per offrire a Danielle un futuro sereno è portarla all’estero, e ci riesce grazie a una precipitosa fuga nelle convulse ore prima della caduta di Saigon. Australia: Danielle, ormai grande, è diventata una donna seducente e un'abile consulente aziendale, e il suo passato sembra solo un ricordo sfuocato.

Believed complicit in her ex-husband’s prison escape, Cleveland police detective Alex Polonia is methodically being forced out of the department. Not waiting, she does them one better and resigns, taking on a new profession as a special agent for Teton, an international security firm. Her first assignment, bodyguard for the family of Nevio Lucchese, a wealthy Italian industrialist relocating to Ho Chi Minh City, old Saigon.

Un reporter de guerre est retrouvé mort en Indochine française. Sa jeune remplaçante enquête et se retrouve entrainée dans des histoires d'espion, d'aventuriers et de tueurs à gage. ​Un roman d'espionnage historique de haut vol par un talent du polar français, et porté par la lecture captivante de Marie du Bled. En Indochine française : une reporter de guerre sur les traces d'espions et de tueurs à gage. Septembre 1953, New York. La rédaction de Life magazine est en deuil.

Wieder einmal hat sich ein Lebensmüder von der Mangfallbrücke zu Tode gestürzt. Seit dem Wiederaufbau der vierzigste Kandidat, der sich mit einem Sprung in die Tiefe ins Jenseits verabschiedete. Außer Schanuk Lindl, der Betreiber der gleichnamigen Gaststätte, ist niemand besonders begeistert, steht der Ort doch seit dem Sprung in der Klatschpresse, wo man sich in Vermutungen verliert. War es Selbstmord oder gar Mord?

Jacquie Pham’s transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley’s The Guest List with the historical vitality of...