Mason Drake and Tree Summerwood, American biologists, survive a helicopter crash in Venezuela where they discover a 5,000-year-old Chinese city hidden deep in a lush valley. This society is partly based on the practice of sexual yoga, but is dying because of its lack of male offspring. Its shamanic empress, Fang Shih, aims to produce the Lung-Hu, a god-like - and hermaphroditic - human being. Tree and Mason become caught up in a love triangle with the beautiful K'un Chien - who turns out to be the sacred hermaphrodite long awaited by the empress.
- ISBN10 0340660422
- ISBN13 9780340660423
- Publish Date 11 February 1998 (first published 3 July 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 April 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder Paperback
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 326
- Language English