The Master Of Rain The Master Of Rain

The Master Of Rain

    • 4.2 • 17 Ratings
    • £8.99
    • £8.99

Publisher Description

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 world beyond the glamour of the city's expatriate life - a world where everything has its price, and where human life is merely another asset to barter.

The key to the investigation seems to be Lena's neighbour, Natasha Medvedev. But can Field trust someone for whom self-preservation is the only goal? And is it wise to fall in love when there is every sign that Natasha herself may be the next victim?

In a city where reality is a dangerous luxury, Field is driven into the darkness beyond the dazzle of society to a world where the basest of human needs are met and where the truth seems certain to be a fatal commodity . . .
____________________

Praise for Tom Bradby:

Quite exceptional’ Daily Telegraph
‘Nigh on impossible to put down’ Time Out
‘Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller’ Daily Mail
‘Intrigue of the highest order … Atmospheric and richly entertaining’ Washington Post
‘This feisty, pacey thriller by TV news reporter turned writer Tom Bradby has it all’ Press Association

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2010
15 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
608
Pages
PUBLISHER
Transworld
SIZE
2.2
MB
Jigsaw Jigsaw
2015
Gently Where The Birds Are Gently Where The Birds Are
2014
Where Shadows Dance Where Shadows Dance
2011
The Confidential Agent The Confidential Agent
2010
The Night of Fear The Night of Fear
2019
The Baklava Club The Baklava Club
2014
Secret Service Secret Service
2019
Triple Cross Triple Cross
2021
Double Agent Double Agent
2020
Shadow Dancer Shadow Dancer
2011
Yesterday's Spy Yesterday's Spy
2022
The Sleep Of The Dead The Sleep Of The Dead
2011
Brandenburg Brandenburg
2018
The Dying Light The Dying Light
2018
Empire State Empire State
2018
Accidental Agent Accidental Agent
2019
A Spy's Life A Spy's Life
2018
Remembrance Day Remembrance Day
2018