China Thrillers · Book 5
The Runner
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 440
- ISBN-13
- 9780754018896
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Runner followed in 2003, growing to 440 pages -- the longest novel in the series -- continuing Peter May's Beijing-set procedurals as Li and Margaret's partnership moves closer toward becoming a couple.
Its place in China Thrillers
The Runner is book 5 in the China Thrillers series. It follows Snakehead. It is followed by Chinese Whispers. 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 9780754018896