The Red Lotus

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend,an emergency room doctor trained to ask questionsfollows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met. The first time Alexis saw Austinit was a Saturday night. Not in a barbut in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in his arm. Six months lateron the brink of falling in lovethey travel to Vietnam on a bike tour so that Austin can show her his passion for cycling and he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But as Alexis sips white wine and waits at the hotel for him to return from his solo ridetwo men emerge from the tall grass and Austin vanishes into thin air. The only clue he leaves behind is a bright yellow energy gel dropped on the road. As Alexis grapples with this bewildering lossnavigating the FBIAustin’s prickly familyand her colleagues at the hospitalAlexis uncovers a series of strange lies that force her to wonder: Where did Austin go? Why did he really bring her to Vietnam? And how much danger has he left her in? Set amidst the adrenaline-fueled world of the emergency roomThe Red Lotus is a global thriller about those who dedicate their lives to saving peopleand those who peddle death to the highest bidder.