Snakehead

4.3/5 ( ratings)

'The plot twists and turns like the tail of a Chinese dragon. A cracking good read ... Highly recommended' Shots Magazine.

'Fast, exciting ... an entertaining read that will also give food for thought.' Irish Times.

' part police procedural and part thriller and they succeed wonderfully on both levels ... I have enjoyed all of the books in the series and consider Snakehead the best of the bunch' Deadly Pleasures.

A truck housing dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas.

Pathologist Dr Margaret Campbell thought she'd escaped her past by returning to the US from China; but assigned to this investigation she finds herself confronted with her former associate Detective Li Yan, dispatched to investigate the trade in illegal labourers.

Forced together again by the case, they soon discover a link to a much wider threat - a biological time-bomb that links gangsters, politicians and migrants in Beijing, Washington and Texas, and puts the lives of millions at risk.

Peter May is the author of The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen. Snakehead is the fourth of his China thrillers. Peter was an award-winning journalist at the age of just twenty-one. He left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series and accruing more than 1,000 television credits. He now lives in France.