基本信息出版社：Pan Books
页码：460 页
出版日期：2005年08月
ISBN：033043196X
International Standard Book Number：033043196X
条形码：9780330431965
EAN：9780330431965
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Shanghai, The People's Republic of China. Eight bodies chained together and horribly mutilated are found in the mud of the Huangpu River. Sun Piao, a Senior Investigator with the Homicide Squad of the PSB, has drawn the short straw...the case stinks of Party and Security Service involvement. Wu, the Chief Medical Examiner, refuses to carry out the autopsies. No hospital will take the bodies in. And Comrade Officer Liping, Piao's head of department, knows things about the murders that he should not know. Piao should dump the case, he knows it; but to walk away from another politically difficult case goes against the grain. He has had to walk away from too many things, too many times. Privileged Shanghai society, the labyrinthine political system, the lowest depths of China's criminal world and its repressive penal institutions...Piao's quest brings him into intimate contact with all layers of Chinese society as he unravels its secrets.
作者简介 Andy Oakes was born in 1952 and is the son of a professional football player and an academic. After working as an engineer in the defence industry, he became a professional photographer, and eventually created a photographic retail franchise business. He then trained to be a Youth Counsellor. He now lives in East Sussex and works with young people, specialising in alcohol and substance abuse.