The Runner

The China Thrillers, Book 5

De: Peter May

Narrado por: Peter Forbes

Duración: 12 h y 26 m

Resumen del Editor

The penultimate novel in the China series, from the Richard and Judy million-selling author of The Blackhouse.

The Sufferer

A prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.

The Listener

Detective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will trust only one person: Li's fiancée, Margaret Campbell.

The Runner

When Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun, and outwit, an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance.

©2012 Peter May (P)2017 Quercus Editions Limited

Brilliant eye-opener

Wonderfully-written and researched. As if Mr May had used a fine-toothed comb, like his protagonists. And one never tires of listening to Mr Forbes, every accent, every nuance.

Thank you both,
Yankee gal of a certain age