From Publishers Weekly
Burdened early on by rapid-fire locale shifts and enough characters to populate a 19th century Russian novel, Thor's debut thriller follows two Chinese-American siblings out to wreak vengeance on the U.S. with the help of a friend from North Korea and a vaccine-resistant strain of the smallpox virus. After three monstrously scarred victims turn up on an oil platform off the coast of Alabama, the smallpox diagnosis immediately triggers action from the CDC, the U.S. Army, and the World Health Organization. Murder, kidnapping and high-tech terrorism add tension to the action-packed good-versus-evil faceoff, but Thor's abrupt style, along with the dizzying array of characters and locales, will keep readers confused for much of the action.
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Product Description
In an extraordinarily relevant novel, Blood Revenge catalogs two independent decisions by two families and the unplanned convergence of their decisions-a non-stop story of vengeance and intrigue pitting east vs. west.
1972 - Xiamen Island China
In one stroke, Tan and Jin Yi moved to eradicate new age reform from within the ranks of the Chinese ruling party. At the same time they make the decision to silently relocate their adolescent children to a location in the western hemisphere. What Tan and Jin Yi did not know, could not know, was that, another family drama was playing out almost one thousand miles to the north...
2009 - Mobile, Alabama
James Bali was just beginning a twelve-hour shift when the call came in. The local coast guard base had radioed ahead that a cutter had rescued victims from an unknown tragedy. They reported that one survivor was recovered from an oil platform in the Gulf...
Dr. Bali and a hospital nurse moved quickly to the helicopter. Bali briefly consulted with one of the coast guard pilots. With the help of the pilot, the doctor climbed into the aircraft to check on the patient. His first thought was that he was staring at some kind of rubber corpse and that this was all some kind of joke, or possibly a coast guard training scenario. But he quickly discarded that idea. Dr. Bali stood silently and shook off a confused stare...
1972 - Xiamen Island China
In one stroke, Tan and Jin Yi moved to eradicate new age reform from within the ranks of the Chinese ruling party. At the same time they make the decision to silently relocate their adolescent children to a location in the western hemisphere. What Tan and Jin Yi did not know, could not know, was that, another family drama was playing out almost one thousand miles to the north...
2009 - Mobile, Alabama
James Bali was just beginning a twelve-hour shift when the call came in. The local coast guard base had radioed ahead that a cutter had rescued victims from an unknown tragedy. They reported that one survivor was recovered from an oil platform in the Gulf...
Dr. Bali and a hospital nurse moved quickly to the helicopter. Bali briefly consulted with one of the coast guard pilots. With the help of the pilot, the doctor climbed into the aircraft to check on the patient. His first thought was that he was staring at some kind of rubber corpse and that this was all some kind of joke, or possibly a coast guard training scenario. But he quickly discarded that idea. Dr. Bali stood silently and shook off a confused stare...
