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020 _a1448311497
020 _a9781448311491
035 _a(OCoLC)1369679748
092 _aQIU,
_bXIAOLONG
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aQiu, Xiaolong,
_d1953-
_eauthor.
_954416
245 1 0 _aLove and murder in the time of Covid /
_cQiu Xiaolong.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bSevern House,
_c2023.
300 _a198 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAn Inspector Chen mystery ;
_v13
520 _aFormer chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic - and risks everything he has to expose the deadly effects of the Chinese Communist Party's so-called zero Covid policy to the world. The Covid crisis is at its height in China. Ex-chief inspector Chen Cao is horrified by the way the Chinese Communist Party are using the pandemic as an excuse to put the Chinese people under blanket surveillance and by the soaring number of deaths caused not by Covid, but by the CCP's inhuman 'zero Covid' policy. Chen is debating whether to translate the 'Wuhan File' - a diary of life during the Wuhan disaster smuggled to him by a close friend - and expose the CCP's secrets to the world when to his surprise he is summoned by a high-level party cadre to help investigate a series of murders near a local Shanghai hospital. Under pressure from the Party to reach a quick conclusion and help maintain political stability, Chen investigates, aware that he too has been placed under omnipresent, omnipotent surveillance. And as he works, determined to uncover the truth, no matter what, he risks everything by deciding to translate the Wuhan Files. For one thing is true in you must be absolutely loyal to the Party. Otherwise, you are considered absolutely disloyal, and the consequences are dark indeed . . .
650 0 _aChen, Inspector (Fictitious character)
_vFiction.
_970981
650 0 _aPolice
_zChina
_zShanghai
_vFiction.
_954417
650 0 _aCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
_vFiction.
655 7 _aDetective and mystery fiction.
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_9464
800 1 _aQiu, Xiaolong,
_d1953-
_tInspector Chen novel.
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