The Master Of Rain by Tom Bradby

The Master Of Rain by Tom Bradby

Shanghai. 1926. A city of nomads divided into national fiefdoms: British, French, American and Chinese. But over all of these, there is a greater power - of the warlords, the gangsters, the people who make the city tick. A city teeming with the scent of possibility. A city where your most dangerous dream might come true. For Richard Field, it is a world far away from his experience. Seconded to the police force, his first moment of active duty is a brutal crime scene. A young woman, Lena Orlov, a White Russian, lies spreadeagled on her bed, sadistically murdered. As he begins to peer through the glittering surface to the murky depths beneath, he sees another world - a world where everything has its price, and where human life is merely another means of barter. With the police force riven with rivalries, petty and political, it becomes clear that he must make his own way through the investigation. His only guide is another beautiful White Russian, Natascha Medvedev, whose allegiance can be bought and for whom self preservation is the ultimate goal. In a city where appearance is all and reality a dangerous luxury, Field is driven into the darkness beyond the dazzle of society to a world where the basest of human needs are met and where the truth can be a fatal commodity . . .

TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written eight previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, and its sequel, Double Agent. The Masterof Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards. As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.

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ISBN 13	9780593048160
ISBN 10	0593048164
Title	The Master Of Rain
Author	Tom Bradby
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2002-01-01
Number of pages	480
Prizes	Short-listed for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2002
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