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.

Dragon's Eye

Oakes, Andy

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Pan/Macmillan

A poundingly paced thriller that evokes with razor-sharp detail the atmosphere of modern Shanghai's noodle shops, bars, prisons, back alleys, and cultural spectacles, Dragon's Eye is a masterful debut that introduces a great modern detective, Chief Investigator Sun Piao.

Literature & Fiction

Press, The Overlook

Contemporary

Overlook Books

When eight bodies wash ashore bearing wounds reminiscent of torture and captivity by the Communist Party, Chief Investigator Sun Piao is the only person with the guts to follow the case, and it takes him deep into the heart of a modern China beset by suspicion and paranoia. A first novel. Reprint.

Mystery

The Overlook Press

Genre Fiction

Dedalus

Drachenaugen

DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch

Ojo de dragón (Alianza Literaria) (Spanish Edition)

Alianza Editorial

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