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    China Run
    China Run
    China Run
    Audiobook15 hours

    China Run

    Written by David Ball

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Critically acclaimed author David Ball pens the compelling story of six American families and their desperate attempt to keep their newly adopted Chinese children. Before leaving China, authorities demand the infants be returned without offering the slightest explanation. What if three of the families refuse? What if they risk everything and attempt a renegade run through China with the babies? Featuring a pulse-pounding narration by George Guidall, China Run will keep listeners on the edge of their seats from start to finish.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 8, 2011
    ISBN9781461809289
    China Run

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    • 1/5
      This book didn't sound too great to me, from the cover blurb, but I'd read
      and really really liked both of David Ball's other novels, Empires of Sand
      and Ironfire (also published as The Sword and the Scimitar). Both of those
      are big, dramatic historical epics full of blood and romance. China Run,
      on the other hand, is a contemporary thriller about adoption in China. Not
      the most thrilling topic, to me. But like I said, I REALLY liked his other
      two novels, so I picked this book up.
      I didn't expect it to be as good - but I also didn't expect it to be this
      BAD. This book is sheer, 100% anti-China propaganda. Now, I'm not saying
      that the Chinese government isn't bad - the problems with China and its
      government could indeed fill whole books. But this novel relies on shock
      tactics. The problem isn't the facts, but the way it's written.
      A group of Americans go to China to adopt baby girls. They're given a set
      of babies, but after a couple of days, they're told there was a mistake -
      they were supposed to get handicapped children, not healthy infants. Some
      of the group refuse to accept this, kidnap the babies, and go on a
      dangerous flight through China. Interestingly, Ball doesn't make the
      Americans ideal parents. They include a blatant racist and a psychotically
      violent man, and the main character, Allison, who's made out to be a hero,
      is obviously really a nutcase, who has already taken a birth mother to
      court to try to take her baby, in America, and is just like, "YOU WILL NOT
      TAKE ANOTHER BABY FROM ME! I WANT A BABY!" - even though she already has a
      stepson!
      OK, so the fleeing Americans put themselves, the babies and others in
      danger, a lot of people die, and it's only by chance that a Chinese
      investigator discovers a secret orphanage where the best-and-brightest
      orphans are adopted for a premium fee, some pretty girls are trained to be
      high-priced escorts and prostitutes, and terminally ill orphans have
      organs removed for transplants when they die. Is any of that really that
      horrific? I don't think so. But apparently we're supposed to think it is.
      Anyway, the investigator gets executed for his pains, as do a lot of other
      people of varying degrees of guilt, and one Chinese baby gets to come back
      to America and live with a psycho pseudo-mom.
      Whatever.