Summary: The short version is that Becca, Doug, their uncle, his crew, Master Aa, and his followers are trying to defeat Sheng-Fat. No, scratch that. They're trying to destroy his store of Zoridium aka Daughter of the Sun. If that means defeating him in the process, so be it. The longer version would mention the Honorable Guild of Specialists and the fact that Becca and Doug were supposed to be headed to San Francisco to live with their aunt after their uncle got tired of their disobendience. It might also mention their sneaking around trying to figure out what their uncle wasn't telling them in hopes that it would give them some idea what happened to their parents, who disappeared in the Sunkiang.
Reflections: I rather like the style of this book--besides the normal narrative, there's also some of Becca's journal entries and Doug's sketches and little bios of some of the characters tucked into the margians and maps of various places and boats and random (relevent) pictures.
Similar stuff: Doug keeps reminding me of a character in some other book that also has a younger brother who asks too many questions and befriends everyone in sight, but I still haven't figured out what book that might be. The second half of the story in general reminded me of most Clive Cussler books, where the characters miraculously escape a whole chain of sudden death situations by a combination of luck and inginuity (which could be why I like them--it's hard to put down a book where you keep thinking that the main character is about to get killed off by the bad guy (or where you would think that if you didn't know that said character returns in the next book. I think at least one of Cussler's books went so far as to have a funeral for the guy before he turned up again in the last page and a half. But I digress.))
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