Inspector 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 criminal trial, to the United States.
Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai’s beautiful Bund Park.
Li insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn takes priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man and also a loyal Party member.
Sobre el Autor:
Qiu Xiaolong (Shanghai, 1953 – ). He was selected for membership in the Chinese Writers’ Association and published poetry, translations and criticism in China.
He has lived in the United States since 1989 and has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature awarded by Washington University. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Present Tense, River Styx, Riverfront Times, and in several anthologies.
He has been the recipient of the Missouri Biennial Award, the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award, a Yaddo and a Ford Foundation Fellowship. He teaches Chinese Literature at University College of Washington University and lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter.
