THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021‘Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.’ Undiscovered Scotland ‘No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.’ New York Journal of BooksThe fifth China thriller sees Li Yan and Margaret Campbell uncover an insidious conspiracy on the eve of the Beijing OlympicsTHE SUFFERERA prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.THE LISTENERDetective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li’s fiancee, Margaret Campbell.THE RUNNERWhen Campbell’s contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun, and outwit, an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance.LOVED THE RUNNER? Read the final book in the China series, CHINESE WHISPERSLOVE PETER MAY? Order his new thriller, THE NIGHT GATE

About the AuthorPeter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.ReviewsAbsolutely unputdownable . . . fiendishly clever. – The TimesBook InformationISBN 9781782062349Author Peter MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint riverrunPublisher Quercus PublishingWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm * 29mm