The Deer and the Cauldron

The Second Book

Ranked #89 in Kung Fu

The second part of a three-volume picaresque historical romance by one of China's most popular authors follows the turbulent adventures of mercurial anti-hero Trinket as he embroils himself with flair in ever more complex intrigues at court and in the dense underworld of seventeenth-century China. All is definitely not as it seems in the palace of that Old Whore, the Empress Dowager. Trinket begins to suspect an incursion into palace politics by a strange sect based on an offshore island, fanatical practitioners of a powerful, manta-based kungfu, while contending forces struggle to lay hands... more

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