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The Firemaker

Yan & Campbell #1

Peter May

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English
Headline
13 December 2016
Series: China Thrillers
The grotesquely burned corpse of a government scientist is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case. The mysterious cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction to forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work, having left America and her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation, and before long uncovers a worrying anomaly. An unlikely partnership develops between Yan and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead. A fiery and volatile chemistry ignites: exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil - a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions.

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Imprint:   Headline
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   384g
ISBN:   9780857053961
ISBN 10:   0857053965
Series:   China Thrillers
Pages:   560
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

Reviews for The Firemaker: Yan & Campbell #1

Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth. - New York Times May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships. - Sunday Times He is a terrific writer doing something different. - Mark Billingham From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer. - Sophie Hannah Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well-written. - Scotland on Sunday


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