The Runner - Hardcover

May, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340823739 ISBN 13: 9780340823736

Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

A top Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of an international event - shattering his country's hopes of victory against the Americans. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress - a scandal to be hushed up at the highest level. But the suicide was murder, and both men's deaths are connected to an inexplicable series of "accidents" which has taken the lives of some of China's best athletes. Li finds himself in charge of what could be his last investigation for the Beijing police. Hampered by uncooperative officials, dogged by a vindictive rival for his job, his only hope of a breakthrough is a champion runner, the sole member of the Chinese athletics team who seems willing to talk. But she will only talk to Margaret Campbell - and now the runner has disappeared. As Li's enemies take their chance to destroy his career, and shadowy figures seem hell-bent on victory at any cost, finding the missing runner seems to be the only way to save his job, his relationship with Margaret and the lives of more young athletes.

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Peter May has been a journalist (Scotsman, Glasgow Evening Times), a writer on the hugely successful Scottish TV soap opera Take the High Road and the creator of three TV series: The Standard, Squadron and Machair, which is the Gaelic-language equivalent of Brookside. He spent six months in China, much of it researching his first novel, THE FIREMAKER.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0340823739
• ISBN 13: 9780340823736
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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