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DescriptionInspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important crime trial, to the States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents the assignment - he would rather be catching the triads - but his boss insists that saving face with Rohn has priority. So Chen must tread warily as he tries to be a good cop...and a loyal party member. Author descriptionQiu Xiaolong, a prizewinning poet and critic in China, now teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His critically acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery series has sold over a million copies and has been published in twenty languages. |