Rare Earth edition by Paul Mason Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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A washed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing.
En route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people-traffickers, prostitutes and TV execs. But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the "spirits that hover three feet above our heads" of Chinese folklore.
Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. It is about the west’s inability to understand the East; one man’s epic journey across a dying landscape, where "thousands of pairs of eyes peer beyond grimy windowpanes into the moonless sky, looking for something better."
Rare Earth edition by Paul Mason Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
The year is 2009 - just before the rare earth crisis broke into real-world news - and a hapless TV news crew on a fairly mundane assignment in China stumbles across pollution, corruption and all sorts of other trouble in the general area of Bao Tou. There are tensions within the team, and conflicts with various other characters as the plot moves along, sometimes on parallel, diverging or converging paths. Provincial life in China is portrayed as highly corrupt, both at the individual and institutional level, and provincial cities have something of the dystopic feel of the movie Blade Runner, but in the present day rather than some distant future. Along the way the team stumbles across illicit, though officially tolerated mining and refining operations, secret mining cartels, government manipulation of the media, excesses of the Chinese nouveau riche, and the desecration of precious antiquities. Oh, and there are mythical beings involved, too: the ghosts of some characters' ancestors play important roles, as does a desert-dwelling motorcycle gang whose members are all young Chinese women with advanced degrees from western universities. Go figure. Hardly ever drawing breath between car chases, fights, murders and debauchery of various kinds, the plot gradually unveils a Chinese scheme, dating all the way back to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, to corner the world market for rare earths and then exploit it. There is a cute twist right at the end, too.The characters in this book are mostly well-portrayed if slightly stereotypical. The news crew members narrowly avoid being caricatures but have a plausibility that the author musters from direct experience, being the economics editor of a BBC current affairs program. The technical details are all pretty accurate, and I guess we can just agree to argue about the conspiracy theory aspect of the plot. A major plot element is the discovery, concealment and eventual "handling" of a major source of pollution.
A couple of warnings:
First: the author of this book is English, and he uses a lot of "Britishisms" in his writing, which may result in episodes of puzzlement for some readers. How many Americans know what a "Tannoy" is, for example? The Brits use the term in the same way that, elsewhere, trade names like "Kleenex," "Hoover," and "Xerox" have become generic terms for tissues, vacuum cleaners, and photocopiers, photocopies and even photocopying. A Tannoy is a public address system, or the loudspeaker component of it. The corporate name appears to derive from a conflation of "tantalum" - a material used in the company's earliest products - and "annoy" - which is what they usually do.
Second: there are some x-rated scenes in this book, and not many of them are even very conventional. If you don't like that sort of thing, then give this one a miss.
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Rare Earth edition by Paul Mason Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I was never surprised, exactly that I enjoyed this book as much as I did - I only heard of it through the ubiquitous online presence of Warren Ellis - if you're as easily charmed by weird sex, strong alcohol and cleverness as I am that's really never a bad sign.
Great insight on modern Chinese culture with fantasy biker chicks thrown in. Something for everyone.
The year is 2009 - just before the rare earth crisis broke into real-world news - and a hapless TV news crew on a fairly mundane assignment in China stumbles across pollution, corruption and all sorts of other trouble in the general area of Bao Tou. There are tensions within the team, and conflicts with various other characters as the plot moves along, sometimes on parallel, diverging or converging paths. Provincial life in China is portrayed as highly corrupt, both at the individual and institutional level, and provincial cities have something of the dystopic feel of the movie Blade Runner, but in the present day rather than some distant future. Along the way the team stumbles across illicit, though officially tolerated mining and refining operations, secret mining cartels, government manipulation of the media, excesses of the Chinese nouveau riche, and the desecration of precious antiquities. Oh, and there are mythical beings involved, too the ghosts of some characters' ancestors play important roles, as does a desert-dwelling motorcycle gang whose members are all young Chinese women with advanced degrees from western universities. Go figure. Hardly ever drawing breath between car chases, fights, murders and debauchery of various kinds, the plot gradually unveils a Chinese scheme, dating all the way back to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, to corner the world market for rare earths and then exploit it. There is a cute twist right at the end, too.
The characters in this book are mostly well-portrayed if slightly stereotypical. The news crew members narrowly avoid being caricatures but have a plausibility that the author musters from direct experience, being the economics editor of a BBC current affairs program. The technical details are all pretty accurate, and I guess we can just agree to argue about the conspiracy theory aspect of the plot. A major plot element is the discovery, concealment and eventual "handling" of a major source of pollution.
A couple of warnings
First the author of this book is English, and he uses a lot of "Britishisms" in his writing, which may result in episodes of puzzlement for some readers. How many Americans know what a "Tannoy" is, for example? The Brits use the term in the same way that, elsewhere, trade names like "Kleenex," "Hoover," and "Xerox" have become generic terms for tissues, vacuum cleaners, and photocopiers, photocopies and even photocopying. A Tannoy is a public address system, or the loudspeaker component of it. The corporate name appears to derive from a conflation of "tantalum" - a material used in the company's earliest products - and "annoy" - which is what they usually do.
Second there are some x-rated scenes in this book, and not many of them are even very conventional. If you don't like that sort of thing, then give this one a miss.
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