Dragon Bones,
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2004
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780099415039
First sentence: THE SUN STILL HADN'T CRESTED OVER THE ROOFS OF THE STATELY buildings on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square when Inspector Liu Hulan of the Ministry of Public Security gazed across a sea of people gathered in the huge cement expanse for the first public assembly of the All-Patriotic Society ever to be held in Beijing.