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Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld. The principal figure and his family have long since fled to the United States, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But the network is still intact and it is only a matter of time before it becomes stronger than before. Chen is charged - and it is a job he cannot refuse - with uncovering those responsible, and destroying the organisation from the top down to its roots. In a twisting case that reunites him with his counterpart from the US Marshals service - Inspector Catherine Rohn - Chen must find a measure of justice in a corrupt, expedient world.… (más)
teaperson: A Case of Two Cities is a fictional mystery that appears to be loosely based on the case described in Inside the Red Mansion. Both explore similar themes of the changes in contemporary China.
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El caso de las dos ciudades es el cuarto título de la saga que ha hecho célebre a Xiaolong, y uno de los más logrados. En esta ocasión el inspector Chen Cao, de la policía de Shanghai, ha de investigar la corrupción propiciada por las recientes reformas económicas, que alcanza a las altas instancias del Partido Comunista. El anterior encargado de dicha tarea fue hallado muerto en un burdel, tras ingerir una gran dosis de una variedad de "viagra chino". Las pesquisas de Chen le llevarán hasta Estados Unidos al frente de una delegación de escritores en visita de intercambio cultural y tras la pista de Xing Sing, un magnate que huyó para evitar su procesamiento.
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Journey*
In memory of Mona van Duyn 1921-2004
Out of the train window, the gaping windows of the buildings are telling stories all along the line, about the past, the present, and the future. I am not the teller of the stories, nor the audience, simply passing through there, then, full of ignorance, so full of imagination.
The high tension cables outline the score of the evening.
Simply passing there, then -- "Next stop is Halle."
*I wrote the poem during a trip in Germany, looking out of the train window, when I was seized by an inexplicable sadness, and upon my return to the States, I learned about the death of my friend, Mona Van Duyn.
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An anonymous phone call came to the Fujian Police Bureau at 1:15 a.m. on that early May night. (Prologue)
Chief Inspector Chen Cao, of the Shanghai Police Bureau, was invited to a mega bathhouse, Birds Flying, Fishes Jumping, on a May afternoon.
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Chief Inspector Chen was ready to go back to Shanghai.
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld. The principal figure and his family have long since fled to the United States, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But the network is still intact and it is only a matter of time before it becomes stronger than before. Chen is charged - and it is a job he cannot refuse - with uncovering those responsible, and destroying the organisation from the top down to its roots. In a twisting case that reunites him with his counterpart from the US Marshals service - Inspector Catherine Rohn - Chen must find a measure of justice in a corrupt, expedient world.
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