Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has
been invited by the Chinese government to teach at the
Beijing police university. She has accepted the six-week
assignment with misgivings but is desperate to escape a
troubled life in America.nbsp; Arriving in Beijing, she
checks “nothing to declare” on the health declaration they
gave her on the plane---nothing, that is, “except a broken
heart and a wasted life, neither of which was contagious.”
nbsp; She gets off to a bad start when her car knocks
senior detective Li Yan off his bicycle.nbsp; In a furious
clash, he dresses her down in perfect English.nbsp; But Li
soon finds himself reintroduced to Margaret by his
superiors when the newly promoted detective’s first case
requires Margaret’s special expertise to identify a
horribly burned corpse.nbsp; Thrown together to track down
the killer, Margaret and Li must bury their personal and
cultural differences when they uncover a conspiracy that
threatens not only their lives, but the lives of millions.
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