Citizen One

Sun Piao battles the Princelings and the corrupt systemThe second of Andy Oakes' stunning crime novels set in Shanghai Sun Piao is released from Ankang, the psychiatric hospital for Chinese dissidents, and demoted to working in the Vice Squad, ostensibly a non-job since the Chinese authorities claim there is no vice in the People's Republic. But, before you know it, he is trying to solve a string of murders of prostitutes, murders in which elite army officers are implicated. It is a case no one wants and no one wants solved since it spells danger to all involved. As his fellow PSB Officers are butchered, Sun Piao's investigations lead him to take on the princelings, the sons of the highest cadre in China, as he seeks justice for his colleagues and the murdered women. Finding the evidence that his superiors do not want him to find leads him to become involved in a power struggle between the old and the new guard. Beneath The Five Interlinked Rings Of The Olympic Flag, Young Women Are Being Raped, Mutilated And Entombed In The Concrete Foundations Of The New National Stadium. A Prostitute, Her Beauty Now Ruined By A Jigsaw Of Razor Cuts ...and The Star Of The People's Republic Carved Deeply Into Her Abdomen. Shanghai-based Senior Inspector Sun Piao Has Recently Been Released From Ankang - A Mental Hospital Where He Was Sent For His Own Safety After His Last Case. Soon It Becomes Clear That The Girls Are Being Murdered By Well-protected Officers Of The People's Liberation Army And Sun Piao Cannot Get Close. His Only Hope Is To Approach The Mysterious And Powerful Citizen One... Andy Oakes.