Li Yan and Margaret Campbell, Chinese policeman and Chicago pathologist heroes of THE FIREMAKER, meet again when Margaret s unique skills are required once more to investigate a series of ritual executions in Beijing. The first three victims were drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded. The fourth victim was dispatched in just the same way but unlike the others he was an American diplomat. Compelled to work with one another, Margaret Campbell and Li Yan again feel the overwhelming attraction that nearly destroyed them both when they first met. But now Margaret has another admirer - a brilliant, charismatic American TV archaeologist. And Li has a family tragedy that demands all his heart. Slowly they tease out the killer s secrets. But the closer they come to the truth behind the executions, the more dangerously close they come to a killer who is prepared to sacrifice anyone to conceal it.
- ISBN10 0312364644
- ISBN13 9780312364649
- Publish Date 6 February 2007 (first published 6 January 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 405
- Language English