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The Enigma of China (Inspector Chen, Bk 8)
The Enigma of China - Inspector Chen, Bk 8 Author:Qiu Xiaolong Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is a rising cadre in the Party, in line to take over the top political position in the police department. Though originally a poet by training and inclination, after graduating from college he was assigned to the department, where he is frequently assigned politically difficult cases. Wh... more »ich is why Chen is assigned to, and expected to sign off on, the Party's investigation into the death of Zhou Keng.
Zhou Keng, a trusted princeling - the son of a major Party member - was head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee. When a number of his corrupt practices were exposed on the Internet, he was removed from his position and placed into extralegal detention. While under guard, Zhou apparently hanged himself. The Party is now eager to have Zhou's death declared a suicide and the investigation closed, but the sequence of events doesn't quite add up. Now Chen will have to decide what to do - investigate the death as a possible homicide and risk angering unseen powerful people, or seek the justice for which his position requires him to strive.« less