The Ghost Shift: A Novel |
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| Authors: | Gapper, John |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC030000, FIC031000, FIC022000 |
| ISBN: | 9780345527943, Related ISBNs: 0345527925, 0345527941, 9780345527929, 9780345527943 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 320, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: In the tradition of Gorky Park, John Gapper’s new thriller takes readers inside the secretive and dangerous world of modern China, as a young woman makes a haunting discovery—one that forces her to choose between duty to her government and a desperate desire to learn the truth about herself.
This wasn’t just a body in a field. The corpse’s shape was hers—same length, same curves. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.
Her twin.
As an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime—and a victim—impossible to ignore. Despite strict orders and threats from superiors, Mei knows she can not turn away.
Breaking protocol, Mei undertakes a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman’s death—and life—by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. But when Mei crosses paths with an ex–CIA operative on a shadowy mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism.
Praise for John Gapper’s A Fatal Debt
“Rarely does one read a first novel so self-assured, sharp, and compelling. It takes off like a rocket and doesn’t stop until its explosive conclusion.”—Joseph Finder, author of Suspicion
“An enlightening and grisly tale . . . tightly plotted and fast-paced.”—The New Yorker
“An ingenious thriller about the ruthless world of high finance.”—The Washington Post
“A fast-paced book that should entertain finance aficionados and fans of detective fiction alike.”—Fortune
“A neatly crafted and well-written thriller . . . an audacious, assured debut.”—David Ignatius, author of Bloodmoney
“[Gapper] knows when to put his foot on the narrative accelerator.”—Financial Times
“Intriguing . . . suspenseful . . . a web of deceit and betrayal.”—Booklist
This wasn’t just a body in a field. The corpse’s shape was hers—same length, same curves. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.
Her twin.
As an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime—and a victim—impossible to ignore. Despite strict orders and threats from superiors, Mei knows she can not turn away.
Breaking protocol, Mei undertakes a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman’s death—and life—by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. But when Mei crosses paths with an ex–CIA operative on a shadowy mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism.
Praise for John Gapper’s A Fatal Debt
“Rarely does one read a first novel so self-assured, sharp, and compelling. It takes off like a rocket and doesn’t stop until its explosive conclusion.”—Joseph Finder, author of Suspicion
“An enlightening and grisly tale . . . tightly plotted and fast-paced.”—The New Yorker
“An ingenious thriller about the ruthless world of high finance.”—The Washington Post
“A fast-paced book that should entertain finance aficionados and fans of detective fiction alike.”—Fortune
“A neatly crafted and well-written thriller . . . an audacious, assured debut.”—David Ignatius, author of Bloodmoney
“[Gapper] knows when to put his foot on the narrative accelerator.”—Financial Times
“Intriguing . . . suspenseful . . . a web of deceit and betrayal.”—Booklist
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