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    The Firemaker: The explosive crime thriller from the author of The Enzo Files (The China Thrillers Book 1)

    Peter May

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    THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILES

    AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021

    'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland

    'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books

    Beijing, the summer of 1999. A grotesquely burned corpse is found in a city park. Detective Li Yan, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, knows he cannot solve this one alone.

    Luckily, the unidentified cadaver draws the attention of married-to-her-career forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, escaping her broken past in America and looking to throw herself into an investigation. And before long, she discovers a bizarre anomaly.

    An unlikely partnership develops between Li and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead. A fiery and volatile chemistry ignites: exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil - a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions of others.

    The first in Peter May's bestselling China Thrillers, which continues in The Fourth Sacrifice.

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    • Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well-written. - Scotland on Sunday

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    Peter May

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    Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.

    In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

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