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Title: Snakehead by Peter May ISBN: 0-340-76866-5 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Snakeheads Bring Death Along with Their Human Cargo
Comment: "Snakehead boss arrested in China." So read a recent headline in the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's premier English language newspaper. A snakehead is a Chinese people smuggler. They move their human cargo via boat and truck to Japan, Russia, Europe and as far away as Canada and the United States. Oftentimes the people are treated abysmally and sometimes, as in Peter May's fourth China mystery, they don't survive.
This book opens with Walker County Deputy J.J. Jackson chewing a match stick as he's pissing into a creek. It's East Texas, hot and Jayjay, a deputy with good instincts wants a cigarette. Finished, he zips up, gets in his cruiser and drives away. Then he spots a food truck in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant. His instincts tell him to look and he finds bodies. Illegal Chinese immigrants.
Margaret Campbell has returned to the States from China and is now Chief Medical Examiner of Harris County (which includes Houston and is close to Walker County), Texas and now Li Yan is attached to the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
A first it seems the victims died because of problems with the truck's ventilation system, but during the postmortem Margaret notices that the immigrants had been recently injected in the buttocks and all of a sudden it looks like terrorists have tried to cause an epidemic of some kind in the United States. But an epidemic of what? And how deadly is it?
Li Yan is sent by his embassy to find out what happened to his countrymen. And the on-again, off-again relationship between him and Margaret is on again as they track a killer who threatens millions of lives.
Reviewers for the Highland Times, the Scotsman, the Guardian, the Aberdeen Evening Express and the Irish Times all loved this book because it's a cracking good story, a terrific read and it's my guess that before long reviewers from American newspapers will be touting the prose of Peter May as well.
Reviewed by Olivia Louise Lewis
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