A Loyal Character Dancer

The second book in the Inspector Chen investigations

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.

Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 351
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.52h x 5.04w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9781569473412
ISBN10: 1569473412
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Political

About the Author
Qiu 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.