Master Of Rain

Tom Bradby wurde 1967 in Malta geboren, wuchs in England auf und studierte in Schottland. Ab 1990 arbeitete er als Korrespondent für den größten englischen privaten Newssender ITV zunächst in Irland und dann in Südostasien. Während eines Berichts über Aufstände in Jakarta wurde er schwer verletzt und kam zurück nach London, wo er als Royal Correspondent beste Kontakte zum Königshaus knüpfte. Seit 2003 ist er Hauptstadt-Korrespondent in London und lebt ebenda mit seiner Frau und drei Kindern.

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Thriller of the YearShanghai, 1926. A city of British Imperial civil servants, American gun-runners, Russian princesses and Chinese gangsters, where heroin is available on room service and everything is for sale. Exotic, sexually liberated and pulsing with life, it is a place and time where anything seems possible.For Richard Field, it represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. Seconded to the police force, his first moment of active duty is a brutal crime scene. A young White Russian woman, Lena Orlov, lies spreadeagled on her bed, sadistically murdered. As he begins to peer through the glittering surface to the murky depths beneath, Field sees a world beyond the glamour of the city's expatriate life - a world where everything has its price, and where human life is merely another asset to barter.The key to the investigation seems to be Lena's neighbour, Natasha Medvedev. But can Field trust someone for whom self-preservation is the only goal? And is it wise to fall in love when there is every sign that Natasha herself may be the next victim?In a city where reality is a dangerous luxury, Field is driven into the darkness beyond the dazzle of society to a world where the basest of human needs are met and where the truth seems certain to be a fatal commodity . . .____________________Praise for Tom Bradby: Quite exceptional Daily Telegraph Nigh on impossible to put down Time Out Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller Daily Mail Intrigue of the highest order Atmospheric and richly entertaining Washington Post This feisty, pacey thriller by TV news reporter turned writer Tom Bradby has it all Press Association

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Thriller of the YearShanghai, 1926. A city of British Imperial civil servants, American gun-runners, Russian princesses and Chinese gangsters, where heroin is available on room service and everything is for sale. Exotic, sexually liberated and pulsing with life, it is a place and time where anything seems possible.For Richard Field, it represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. Seconded to the police force, his first moment of active duty is a brutal crime scene. A young White Russian woman, Lena Orlov, lies spreadeagled on her bed, sadistically murdered. As he begins to peer through the glittering surface to the murky depths beneath, Field sees a world beyond the glamour of the city's expatriate life - a world where everything has its price, and where human life is merely another asset to barter.The key to the investigation seems to be Lena's neighbour, Natasha Medvedev. But can Field trust someone for whom self-preservation is the only goal? And is it wise to fall in love when there is every sign that Natasha herself may be the next victim?In a city where reality is a dangerous luxury, Field is driven into the darkness beyond the dazzle of society to a world where the basest of human needs are met and where the truth seems certain to be a fatal commodity . . .____________________Praise for Tom Bradby: Quite exceptional Daily Telegraph Nigh on impossible to put down Time Out Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller Daily Mail Intrigue of the highest order Atmospheric and richly entertaining Washington Post This feisty, pacey thriller by TV news reporter turned writer Tom Bradby has it all Press Association