The stone council
By: Jean-Christophe Grangé ; translated from the French by Ian Monk.
Publisher: Harvill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Women ethnologists -- France -- Fiction.; Adoption -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Concile de pierre.
Description: "As a child, Diane Thiberge had been the victim of an assualt. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last found a meaning and purpose to her life when she decides to adopt a five-year-old Thai boy, Liu-San, whom she christens Lucien." "On her return to France, however, Lucien is involved in an accident and is declared to be brain-dead. A series of murders make Diane realise that her son is no ordinary child, but someone who, through no fault of his own, has fallen prey to sinister paranormal forces. In a denouement that takes her from Paris and Germany to the remote mountain fastnesses of Mongolia, she resolves to fight for her son's survival."--BOOK JACKET.