A British police inspector is sent to an exotic land to catch a
serial killer.Murder is so uncommon in Mongolia that when one
occurs, the government accepts help from England in the person of
Chief Inspector Drew McLeish of Manchester. A severely mutilated
body, missing both head and hands, has been found on a dark urban
side street. Nergui, former head of the local Serious Crimes Squad,
had been pleased to leave behind the increasingly mean streets of
Mongolia's capital, Ulan Baatar, for a desk job with the Ministry
of Justice. But the brutal murder requires him to return to his old
post, where he works uneasily with his successor, the brash and
ambitious Doripalam. No sooner has Drew been filled in on the
murder than a second occurs on the outskirts of the city and a
third in a luxury hotel room. At first, Doripalam bristles at
Nergui's involvement in the case, but as the stakes are raised,
he's secretly relieved that any negative fallout will land on his
old boss rather than himself. Similar mutilations of the three
corpses lead the trio to conclude that they're tracking a serial
killer. Identifying the hotel room victim as British geologist Ian
Ransom provides a starting point. The mystery in Walters's debut
lacks distinction, but his prose is sure and his vivid portrait of
a largely unknown culture lays a solid groundwork for future
installments. (Kirkus Reviews)
Set in a country struggling to come to terms with the legacy of its
past and the promise of its future, The Shadow Walker is a gripping
thriller that introduces Inspector Nergui of the Mongolian Serious
Crime squad. As winter's first snow falls on Ulan Baatar, the
mutilated body of a British geologist is found in the city's most
expensive hotel, apparently the fourth victim of a serial killer.
With political pressure to solve the crimes mounting, Negrui,
ex-head of the Serious Crime Squad, is ordered back to his former
role, building an uneasy working relationship with his successor
and protege, Doripalam, and with Drew McLeish, a senior British CID
officer sent out to support the investigation. But the murders
continue - leading the officers through the disused factories of
the decaying city, out on to the steppes among nomadic herdsmen and
illegal gold prospectors, and down into the barren landscapes of
the Gobi. And then McLeish himself is kidnapped. With political
tensions mounting and time draining away, Nergui and Doripalam
piece together a case that encompasses both personal tragedy and
shadowy commercial interests in Mongolia's vast mineral and energy
reserves. And, finally, in a long-abandoned warehouse amongst the
decaying Soviet-era factories of Ulan Baatar, Nergui comes face to
face with the only figure who can bring the story to its shattering
conclusion.
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