{"product_id":"9781910859025","title":"The Ghost Shift","description":"\u003cp\u003eExperience the secretive and dangerous new China in this explosive thriller from renowned journalist John Gapper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis wasn’t just a body in a field. 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer twin.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgent Song Mei is a rising star in the Commission for Discipline Inspection. Her days are spent investigating political corruption… until she arrives on the scene of a gruesome murder and is confronted with a crime – and a victim – that is impossible to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIgnoring the warnings and threats of her superiors, Mei throws herself into a quest to uncover the mystery surrounding the corpse before her, which takes her into the dark heart of modern-day China. Soon it becomes clear that shadowy forces at home and abroad are implicated in a complex and far-reaching conspiracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom corrupt Communist officials, to tragedy-haunted CIA agents, through to suicidal factory workers, \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Shift\u003c\/i\u003e is a devastating portrait of a country coming to terms with the twenty-first century, and a brilliant and driven heroine coming to terms with her past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gapper\u003c\/b\u003e is chief business commentator and associate editor of the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and a regular on BBC and CNN. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eA Fatal Debt\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darkwater Syndicate, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151452618992,"sku":"9781910859025","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910859025_p0.jpg?v=1763628746","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910859025","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}