Item #13492 The Master of Rain. Tom Bradby.

The Master of Rain

NY: Doubleday, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. 6.5"x9.5". 452 pges. First printing. Black boards. Red stock paper spine w/gilt letters. Map of Shanghai for paste downs. Book design by Claire Vaggaro. Map designed by Jeffrey L. Ward. Author photo by Robin Matthews. Jacket design by John Fontana. Jacket photo illustration by Marc Yankus. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. 2 small cuts to top back boards. One small cut to front DJ. Slight edge and shelf wear to DJ. Collectible - Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #13492
ISBN: 9780385503976

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Thriller of the Year
Shanghai, 1926. A city of British Imperial civil servants, American gun-runners, Russian princesses and Chinese gangsters, where heroin is available on room service and everything is for sale. Exotic, sexually liberated and pulsing with life, it is a place and time where anything seems possible.
For Richard Field, it represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. Seconded to the police force, his first moment of active duty is a brutal crime scene. A young White Russian woman, Lena Orlov, lies spreadeagled on her bed, sadistically murdered. As he begins to peer through the glittering surface to the murky depths beneath, Field sees a ...
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