May's well-plotted follow-up to his first mystery featuring Beijing Deputy Section Chief Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell (after 2005's The Firemaker) amplifies his vivid picture of a chaotic, vital modern-day China emerging from the havoc wrought by the cultural revolution and the Red Guards. A request from the American ambassador puts Margaret's imminent departure from China on hold when a series of execution-style decapitations claims a fourth victim, a Chinese-American employed by the U.S. embassy in Beijing. She and Li join forces on the difficult investigation, which is shadowed by the romantic tension of their relationship even as handsome TV archeologist Michael Zimmerman avidly courts Margaret. May evokes the intense mutual attraction between Li and Margaret against a fascinating backdrop of the cultural divide between China and America. (Feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing.
Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too . . . familiar.
The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell again strengthens their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it.
Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too . . . familiar.
The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell again strengthens their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it.
The Fourth Sacrifice
The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing.
Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too . . . familiar.
The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell again strengthens their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it.
Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too foreign and too . . . familiar.
The personal polarity that once attracted Yan and Campbell again strengthens their professional partnership. Yet the closer they draw to the truth, the greater the danger posed by a killer prepared to do anything to conceal it.
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BN ID: | 2940170149186 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Audio |
Publication date: | 05/01/2018 |
Series: | China Thrillers Series , #2 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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