Ghost Shift

In the tradition of Gorky Park, John Gapper 's new thriller take readers inside the secretive and dangerous world of modern China, as a young woman makes a haunting discovery—one that forces her to choose between duty to her government and a desperate desire to learn the truth about her.
The corpse's shape was hers—same length, same curves. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.
Her twin.
As an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime—and a vignic—impossible to ore. Despite strict orders and threats from superiors, i knows she can not Turn away.
Breaking protocol, Mei undertake a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman's death—and life—by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism.

Author: John Gapper

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Released Date: 2015

ISBN: 9780345527929