{"product_id":"2940169427837","title":"Jade Dragon Mountain: A Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn  the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must  learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the  strength of the stories they tell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLi Du was an imperial  librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town  before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with  travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle  unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded  by the Emperor himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a Jesuit astronomer is found  murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on  Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing.  Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort,  the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company  merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who  can't keep his own story straight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the sloping roofs and  festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out  of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his  exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems  all too willing to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158860775664,"sku":"2940169427837","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169427837_p0.jpg?v=1763682539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169427837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}