Death of a Red Heroine - Inspector Chen 1

Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep the young woman's murder out of the papers at all costs. When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high-ranking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case and reassigned to another area. Chen has a choice: bend to the party's wishes and sacrifice his morals, or continue his investigation and risk dismissal from his job and from the party. Or worse . . .

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Xiaolong's astute rendering of the many contradictions of contemporary Chinese life centres on the brilliant Inspector Chen . . . A series that might well get you hooked. Sunday Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Xiaolong Qiu, QIU XIAOLONG, Qiu Xiaolong
• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.02.2006
• EAN: 9780340897515
• ISBN: 978-0-340-89751-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 178 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Sceptre Paperbacks; Oberinspektor Chen; Chen Cao; Sceptre Paperbacks; Chen Cao
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)