The Ghost Shift
A Novel
by John Gapper
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Pub Date Jan 20 2015 | Archive Date Mar 31 2015
Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine | Ballantine Books
Description
In the tradition of Gorky Park, John Gapper's new thriller takes readers inside the secretive and dangerous world of modern China, as a young woman makes a haunting discovery, one that forces her to choose between duty to her government and a desperate desire to learn the truth about herself.
This wasn't just a body in a field. The corpse's shape was hers, same length, same curves. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.
Her twin.
As an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime, and a victim, impossible to ignore. Despite strict orders and even threats from superiors, Mei knows there can be no turning away.
Breaking protocol, Mei undertakes a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman's death, and life, by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. But when Mei crosses paths with an ex-CIA operative on a shadowy mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism.
Praise for John Gapper's A Fatal Debt
Rarely does one read a first novel so self-assured, sharp, and compelling. It takes off like a rocket and doesn't stop until its explosive conclusion. -Joseph Finder, author of Suspicion
An enlightening and grisly tale . . . tightly plotted and fast-paced. -The New Yorker
An ingenious thriller about the ruthless world of high finance. -The Washington Post
A fast-paced book that should entertain finance aficionados and fans of detective fiction alike. -Fortune
A neatly crafted and well-written thriller . . . an audacious, assured debut. -David Ignatius, author of Bloodmoney
[Gapper] knows when to put his foot on the narrative accelerator. -Financial Times
Intriguing . . . suspenseful . . . a web of deceit and betrayal. -Booklist
This wasn't just a body in a field. The corpse's shape was hers, same length, same curves. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.
Her twin.
As an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime, and a victim, impossible to ignore. Despite strict orders and even threats from superiors, Mei knows there can be no turning away.
Breaking protocol, Mei undertakes a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman's death, and life, by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. But when Mei crosses paths with an ex-CIA operative on a shadowy mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism.
Praise for John Gapper's A Fatal Debt
Rarely does one read a first novel so self-assured, sharp, and compelling. It takes off like a rocket and doesn't stop until its explosive conclusion. -Joseph Finder, author of Suspicion
An enlightening and grisly tale . . . tightly plotted and fast-paced. -The New Yorker
An ingenious thriller about the ruthless world of high finance. -The Washington Post
A fast-paced book that should entertain finance aficionados and fans of detective fiction alike. -Fortune
A neatly crafted and well-written thriller . . . an audacious, assured debut. -David Ignatius, author of Bloodmoney
[Gapper] knows when to put his foot on the narrative accelerator. -Financial Times
Intriguing . . . suspenseful . . . a web of deceit and betrayal. -Booklist
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780345527929 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
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