The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
A Novel
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022, ©2021.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 465 pages ; 22 cm.
"Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad. Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and unexpected finale. Written with the violent ardor of Cormac McCarthy and the otherworldly inventiveness of Ted Chiang, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu is at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man's quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover
Subjects:
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Clairvoyants -- Fiction.
Magicians -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Large type books.
California -- Fiction.
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Clairvoyants -- Fiction.
Magicians -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Large type books.
California -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9798885780155
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