{"product_id":"the-secret-sharers-9781448317172","title":"The Secret Sharers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEx-Chief Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau investigates the case of a vanished man in this poetic, atmospheric literary mystery set in contemporary Shanghai.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eOver two million copies of the Inspector Chen series sold worldwide.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the Chinese government's crackdown on private investigators, times are hard for those in the business: Which includes Inspector Chen's good friend Old Hunter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So when one of Shanghai's most successful businesswomen asks Old Hunter to help a man nicknamed X who's been vanished by the government, reason unknown, he accepts the politically dangerous--but extremely well-paid--case, and immediately turns to Chen for help in turn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What crime has the vanished man supposedly committed? Chen plunges in, his investigations soon leading back to the massacre at Tian'anmen Square, when X spoke up against the Party--and Chen did not. And as the inspector uncovers the life of a man whose background and tastes strangely echo his own, he becomes desperate not just to save the mysterious X, but to redeem himself for his own mistakes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eXiaolong, Qiu:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAnthony Award-winning author \u003cb\u003eQiu Xiaolong\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Shanghai and moved to Washington University in St. Louis, US to complete a PhD in comparative literature. After the Tian'anmen tragedy in 1989, he stayed on in St. Louis, where he still lives with his wife. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQiu has sold over two million copies of his Inspector Chen Mysteries worldwide and been published in twenty languages. Many of his novels have been adapted as BBC Radio 4 dramas. Qiu is also the author of a mystery series set in Tang dynasty China, featuring the legendary Judge Dee Renjie. On top of his fiction, he is a prize-winning writer of poetry and poetry critic.","brand":"Severn House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51834720518418,"sku":"9781448317172","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bb7c8fe3-fdca-4794-9832-406438744a57.jpg?v=1767102961","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-secret-sharers-9781448317172","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}