\"A WINNER.\" --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
\"FIENDISHLY CLEVER.\" --THE TIMES
In this heart-stopping installment of Peter May''s award-winning China Thrillers, the Beijing Olympics are the setting for fierce competition, national pride--and murder.
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 LISTENERDetective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li''s fiancée, Margaret Campbell.
THE RUNNERWhen 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.
