Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel. Yet she has not tried to contact Martha since she arrived, leaving her lonely, confused and a little bit worried. Into the story steps Mayland Long, a distinguished-looking and wealthy Chinese man who lives at the hotel and is drawn to Martha's good nature and ability to pinpoint the truth of a matter. Mayland and Martha become close in a short period of time and he promises to help her find Elizabeth, making small inroads in the mystery before Martha herself disappears. Now Mayland is struck by the realization, too late, that he is in love with Martha, and now he fears for her life. Determined to find her, he sets his prodigious philosopher's mind to work on the problem, embarking on a potentially dangerous adventure.
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By HLT
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What a pleasure it is to see RA MacAvoy coming back into print!
Tea with the Black Dragon is a fusion of an ancient magic (one of the characters is, or has been, a Chinese Dragon) and of modern wizardry (it's set in and around San Francisco in the 1980s, and skilfully captures the atmosphere of excitement - technical and economic - that existed in the early days of the computer revolution).
Woven into to the wizardry is a feel-good romance, an edge-of-the-seat adventure involving a missing daughter and an evil conspiracy, and wonderful characters who live in the memory for years.
RA MacAvoy wrote several other excellent books, but this, in my view, was her masterpiece.
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Quite frankly one of the best books you will ever enjoy. Short, sweet and unusual. Buy it for sheer novelty value you will never regret it. By the way the sequel is not too shabby either.
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I'd heard about this book, and was eager to read it, but I'm afraid I'm part way through and just can't get into it at all. Maybe it has dated badly. I love the ideas in it, but the actual execution is clunky.
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