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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Wei, central character in "A Touch of Cold", has gone to medical school in China, but her older brother, Gun, is incurably ill and Wei has tried everything, even Japanese acupuncture dano-kyu, to cure him but Gun never responds. Their father, Wang, is an archeologist who is currently working in Khotan, on the ancient Silk Route. Wang has never been close to Wei and Gun as their mother died years before. But now Wei and Wang bond and Wei accompanies Wang to Khotan where the bodies of people over 300 years old have been found. Wei investigates and feels that the ancient Chinese would have healed Gun. She learns of Lao, who lived 200 years before Christ, and his knowledge of the Procedure, two books and something wrapped in cloth, that cured illness and led to a long life. Wei accompanies Gun to Paris and meets Dr. Alan Besancon, but will they find the still existing Procedure to keep it from evil drug manufacturers and in time to save Gun?
"A Touch of Cold" is a brilliantly written mystery/thriller. It takes the reader back in time to China as it was 200 years before the birth of Christ and then forward again to modern times where a cure is found for people's wounds that won't heal and only get worse. The characters in this story, Wei, Gun, father Wang, Dr. Alain Besancon, Wei's uncle Lin, the nasty drug industry kingpin Henry Shatz, are all believable and totally three-dimensional. The plot proceeds towards the book's conclusion with the twists and turns that make it a first-rate thriller. Wei and Alain fall in love against the background of racing to save the Procedure and find what cold has to do with an injured person's healing. This is an international thriller for everyone, everywhere!
