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Author Bohjalian, Chris, 1962- author.

Title The red lotus : a novel / Chris Bohjalian.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Contemporaries : Vintage Books, 2021.
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 Granby, Main Library - Adult  BOHJALIAN, CHRIS    Check Shelf
Edition First Vintage Contemporaries edition, January 2021.
Description 383 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "A twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm. Six months later, on the brink of falling in love, they travel to Vietnam on a bicycling tour so that Austen can show her his passion for cycling and so that he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But as Alexis sips white wine and waits at the hotel for Austen to return from his solo ride, two men emerge from the tall grass and Austen vanishes into thin air. The only clues he leaves behind are two bright yellow energy gels dropped in the dirt road. As Alexis grapples with this bewildering loss, navigating the FBI, Austen's prickly family, and her colleagues at the hospital, Alexis uncovers a series of strange lies that force her to wonder: Where did Austen go? Why did he really bring her to Vietnam? And how much danger has he left her in? Set amid the adrenaline-fueled world of the emergency room, The Red Lotus is a fascinating story of those who dedicate their lives to saving people, and those who instead peddle death to the highest bidder."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Women physicians -- United States -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
Women physicians -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Vietnam -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01023707
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
Women physicians. (OCoLC)fst01178296
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Vietnam. (OCoLC)fst01204778
Genre/Form Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN 0525565965 (paperback)
9780525565963 (paperback)
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