China Crime

One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland.

The last two years have been really difficult for everyone around the globe. Some people have moved out of cities, and others have just given up and taken to the streets. We now have vaccines to fight against COVID19 but access to them does not exist in every country yet. It is clear that the WHO has lost interest in its investigation into the origins of the disease, and in reality, this is probably a good thing because it is a waste of time. The virus could have been released by the Chinese Communist Party, hundreds of other governments, or millions of organizations around the globe. To ...

Raso è uno psicopatico. Un poliziotto. Una belva assetata di sangue che si aggira per la città. Sta cercando la sua ex-moglie, Ky-Won, una prostituta arrivata in Italia negli anni Sessanta dopo la fuga dalla Cina maoista. Il drago a cinque artigli della mafia cinese a Milano veglia su di lei, cerca di impossessarsi della sua anima, ma quando Ky-Won scopre che il marito è uscito di prigione, intuisce che non avrà scampo. Lui la troverà, e le farà conoscere gli orrori che le ha promesso il giorno che è stato condannato per omicidio, grazie alla sua testimonianza.

En el corazón de Tasmania, donde los bosques ancestrales susurran secretos y las sombras bailan con el viento, se desarrolla un misterio escalofriante que deja a la comunidad isleña sumida en el miedo y la incertidumbre. Cuando tres jóvenes desaparecen sin dejar rastro de la aparentemente tranquila ciudad de Hobart, las vidas de los habitantes de la isla cambian para siempre. Entra en escena el detective Harry Chin, un investigador experimentado de rostro inescrutable y ojos que han presenciado las profundidades más oscuras de la naturaleza humana. Harry ha pasado su vida navegando por ...

It’s not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law enforcement or the traces of accelerant, so much as the bullet hole in his chest. When a weapon is recovered at the back of the still-smouldering house, it will be the first clue that the death is connected to China. And when Phelan is identified as an airport worker, the investigation begins to focus on suspicious goings-on in relation to a regular A300 freight flight from Shanghai. But pointing the finger at the Chinese is all the rage, and maybe detectives have just been led up the garden path.

"Previously published as Chinatown Abduction by Palliser, J (AUTHOR)." In the depths of Chinatown, Jan finds herself ensnared in a treacherous web spun by merciless drug dealers and slavers. Her world is shattered as she is subjected to unspeakable degradation and humiliation, her spirit slowly eroded into submission. The question that hangs in the air, heavy with uncertainty, is whether she will manage to break free from this nightmarish ordeal or if she will be condemned to a fate even more sinister - a life of forced prostitution, or perhaps something even more harrowing.

September 2021: Das Internationale Olympische Komitee tagt in Shanghai, um die Sommerspiele 2032 zu vergeben. Kurz vor der Abstimmung wird der mosambikanische IOC-Funktionär Charles Murandi tot aufgefunden. Prompt wird der deutsche Journalist Thomas Gärtner festgenommen, denn er hat sich zuletzt im Hotelzimmer des Toten aufgehalten. Doch der will sich an nichts erinnern können. Und während die Polizei auf Ungereimtheiten stößt, die Kanzlerin im Flugzeug nach Shanghai von dem Mord erfährt und ein anderer Journalist die Chance auf eine große Story wittert, ahnt niemand, wo der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Falls wirklich liegt.

Januar 2006. Die Polizei von Hudiksvall macht eine schreckliche Entdeckung: 18 Menschen wurden auf grausame Weise getötet, am Tatort findet man ein rotes Seidenband. Unter den Toten sind auch die Adoptiveltern der Mutter von Richterin Birgitta Roslin, und sie beginnt zu recherchieren. Die Spur führt 140 Jahre in die Vergangenheit und bis nach China ...

Nury Turkel was born in a ‘re-education’ camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He spent the first several months of his life in captivity with his mother, who was beaten and starved while pregnant with him, whilst his father served a penal sentence in an agricultural labour camp. Following this traumatic start—and not without a heavy dose of good fortune—he was later able to travel to the US for his undergraduate studies in 1995 and was granted asylum in the country in 1998 where, as a lawyer, he is now a tireless activist for the plight of his people.

Two men. One dark secret. A mystery buried for two decades. John Mason thought he’d left the past behind—until an old friend drags him back into a deadly game. As long-buried memories resurface, so do dangerous questions: What really happened to Julie Sanderson, the girl who vanished all those years ago? And why does Jim, once a mentor, now seem determined to pin the past on him? To protect those he loves, John must confront the truth. But in a world where trust is shattered and loyalties are tested, how far will he go before he loses everything? A gripping psychological thriller about ...

They called it the Place of Silence: the last frozen barrier between Balpur and Tibet. An icy wilderness where desperate men made a living smuggling guns across the border. Even for the bravest, the luck has to run out...On what he thought would be his last flight, Jack Drummond found his own recipe for disaster. A deadly cargo of machine guns. A band of ruthless guerrillas. And a confrontation with the Chinese Reds, leaving no chance for escape....