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The Firemaker is the first work of fiction to lift the lid on a Pandora's Box of genetic food engineering. It gives a terrifying glimpse of the doomsday scenario that could await if the scientists get it wrong. A chilling thriller set in contemporary Beijing, it resulted from extensive investigations in China where May received unprecedented access to the Chinese police. The Firemaker features Beijing detective Li Yan, and American pathologist, Margaret Campbell, as they track the killer of a government scientist whose corpse is found smouldering in Ritan Park, Beijing.
Campbell is on a six-week lecture trip at the University of Public Security in Beijing. She has fled to China to escape from a broken heart and a shattered life. Li is a newly promoted detective, walking in the footsteps of an uncle who was a near legend in the Beijing police force.
Li's uncle, now retired, prefers to play chess in the park and dispense his wisdom in Chinese riddles, and the young detective is forced reluctantly to turn for help to the experienced Margaret Campbell whose expertise is burn victims.
On the night that the scientist is burned to death, there are two other murders in the city. It soon becomes clear that all three are linked.
From the moment Campbell conducts the autopsy on the government scientist, her future and Li's become as inextricably linked as the murders they are investigating. And as, together, they peel back layer upon layer of obfuscation, the terrible truth they finally uncover sets them on a terrifying course they could never have imagined.
Genre: Mystery
Campbell is on a six-week lecture trip at the University of Public Security in Beijing. She has fled to China to escape from a broken heart and a shattered life. Li is a newly promoted detective, walking in the footsteps of an uncle who was a near legend in the Beijing police force.
Li's uncle, now retired, prefers to play chess in the park and dispense his wisdom in Chinese riddles, and the young detective is forced reluctantly to turn for help to the experienced Margaret Campbell whose expertise is burn victims.
On the night that the scientist is burned to death, there are two other murders in the city. It soon becomes clear that all three are linked.
From the moment Campbell conducts the autopsy on the government scientist, her future and Li's become as inextricably linked as the murders they are investigating. And as, together, they peel back layer upon layer of obfuscation, the terrible truth they finally uncover sets them on a terrifying course they could never have imagined.
Genre: Mystery
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December 2010 : UK Hardback
Title: The Firemaker
Author(s): Peter May, Peter May
ISBN: 0-340-73834-0 / 978-0-340-73834-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Availability: Amazon UK
September 2005 : USA Hardback
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January 2018 : USA Paperback
April 2016 : UK Paperback
October 2009 : USA Paperback
April 1999 : UK Paperback
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April 2018 : USA Audio CD
April 2018 : USA Audio CD
April 2018 : USA Audio edition
April 2018 : Canada Audio edition
July 2015 : USA Audio edition

Title: The Firemaker: The China Thrillers, Book 1
Author(s): Peter May
Publisher: Quercus
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July 2015 : Australia Audio edition

Title: The Firemaker: The China Thrillers, Book 1
Author(s): Peter May
Publisher: Quercus
Availability: Amazon AU
July 2015 : UK Audio edition

Title: The Firemaker: The China Thrillers, Book 1
Author(s): Peter May
Publisher: Quercus
Availability: Amazon UK
April 2015 : UK Audio CD

Title: The Firemaker (Unabridged Audiobook) (Yan & Campbell)
Author(s): Peter May
ISBN: 1-4712-9210-X / 978-1-4712-9210-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon UK
July 2003 : UK Audio Cassette

Title: The Firemaker
Author(s): Peter May
ISBN: 0-7531-1799-1 / 978-0-7531-1799-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Availability: Amazon CA
Kindle Editions
June 2012 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
June 2012 : Australia, UK Kindle edition