The Couturier of Milan
The Triad Years
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Publisher Description
New-World China meets Old-World Italy, as Ava investigates the dark side of the glamourous world of fashion in the latest installment of the Ava Lee Novels.
Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and her partners in the Three Sisters — May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee — have made over the past year. The show is a success, but perhaps too much of one. It attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. When VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters’ stake in the company, Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÖ comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base begins to abandon them.
With the help of Xu, Ava uncovers the dark and complex dynamics between East and West in the global fashion industry, eventually leading to a confrontation between two of the world’s biggest crime syndicates.
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Hamilton's tense 10th Ava Lee novel (after The Princeling of Nanjing) has his heroine trying to establish herself in the legitimate world of high fashion after retiring from her not-so-legitimate debt-collecting business. She quickly realizes those two worlds aren't that far apart. It's London Fashion Week, and Ava's fashion line is a huge success, so much so that the famous Dominic Ventola of the giant VLG line wants to buy the company. Ava and her partners are flattered by the attention of the great Italian designer but turn him down. Ventola doesn't take it well and decides, with his crime-syndicate backers, to run them out of the business. Fans of the series know Ava will respond soundly with a cold, satisfying dish of revenge. Since the death of Ava's partner, Uncle, and her move into legitimate business, the novels are less action-driven and even a touch more melodramatic, focusing on her relationships with her new partners and on a blossoming romance. This book, like all the Ava Lee novels, is pure fun.
