The Runner

By: Peter May;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Crime, Novel, Thriller,

ISBN: 9780340823743

SKU: BE501271904453

Pages: 373

Description: NOTE: BROWNING STAIN ON EDGE DUE TO AGE.INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD. A top Chinese swimmer kills himself of 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 suicides were 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. In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.