By Xiaolong Qiu
384 pages
Jan. 15, 2013
Shanghais Inspector Chen has been assigned to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in a U.S. criminal trial. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has vanished. Chen, with Confucian precepts, would rather investigate, but his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority.