TY - BOOK AU - Bohjalian,Chris TI - THE RED LOTUS: A NOVEL SN - 9780525565963 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York : PB - Vintage Contemporaries, KW - Women physicians KW - Fiction KW - Missing persons KW - Man-woman relationships N2 - 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 questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met. Alexis and Austin don't have a typical "meet cute"--the couple comes together for the first time when Alexis, an emergency room doctor, sutures a bullet wound in Austin's arm. Six months later, they're on a romantic getaway in Vietnam: a bike tour on which Austin can show Alexis his passion for cycling, and he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But then Austin fails to return from a solo ride. Alexis's boyfriend has vanished, the only clue left behind a bright yellow energy gel dropped on the road ER -