In the fourth of Peter Mayas acclaimed China Thrillers,
American pathologist Margaret Campbell finds herself back
on home soil, only to be faced by a truck full of dead
Chinese and an unavoidable confrontation with her past.
Beijing detective Li Yan, now based at the Chinese embassy
in Washington, is dispatched to find out how his fellow
countrymen suffocated in a sealed refrigeration unit in
southern Texasaonly to find himself face-to-face with the
woman who walked out of China, and his life, to return to
the U.S.Tasked to work together again to find out who is
behind the $100 million trade in illegal Chinese
immigrants which led to the tragedy in Texas, they
discover that the immigrants were unwitting carriers of a
deadly cargo.And still wrestling with the demons of their
pasts, Li and Margaret find themselves racing against time
to defuse a biological time-bomb that threatens to wipe
out not only their future, but that of humankind.