{"product_id":"citizen-one-z","title":"Andy Oakes: Citizen One [2008] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeneath the five interlinked rings of the Olympic flag, young women are being raped, mutilated and entombed in the concrete foundations of the new National Stadium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A prostitute, her beauty now ruined by a jigsaw of razor cuts . . . and the star of the People's Republic carved deeply into her abdomen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Shanghai-based Senior Inspector Sun Piao has recently been released from Ankang - a mental hospital where he was sent for his own safety after his last case. Soon it becomes clear that the girls are being murdered by well-protected officers of the People's Liberation Army and Sun Piao cannot get close. His only hope is to approach the mysterious and powerful Citizen One . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Praise for Andy Oakes' first novel: 'The picture conjured up of Shanghai and of the complexities of a corrupt and claustrophobic China is gripping . . . it is the long, stealthy shadow of the state falling across its pages that marks this crime novel out as something of an original in its genre' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oakes, Andy","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48035521036627,"sku":"XV80330434430","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":44260283515170,"sku":"9780330434430","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/oakes-andy-andy-oakes-citizen-one-2008-paperback-58729506832723.jpg?v=1727739857","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/citizen-one-z","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}