China Thrillers · Book 1
The Firemaker
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780312342944
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Firemaker opens Peter May's China Thrillers in 1999, introducing Beijing homicide detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, whose professional rivalry over Western crime-scene techniques becomes a reluctant partnership. At 432 pages, it establishes the Beijing police-bureaucracy setting May researched with rare access to China.
Its place in China Thrillers
The Firemaker is book 1 in the China Thrillers series. It is followed by The Fourth Sacrifice. See the full China Thrillers reading order.
Before Peter May found fame with the Lewis Trilogy, he wrote six novels (plus a later novella) set inside Beijing's police bureaucracy, pairing Li Yan, a senior detective in the Ministry of Public Security, with Margaret Campbell, an American forensic pathologist who arrives to lecture on Western crime-scene techniques and ends up investigating alongside him. May researched the series with a rare degree of access to China during a period when the country was still largely closed to Western writers, and the books…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312342944