Lin Xiangbei is dispatched from the provincial government to Longchuan County. His transfer order says he is there to “supervise special projects.”
On the day he reports for duty, the gatekeeper tells him that the previous visitor lasted forty days before a hit-and-run pickup with no license plate broke his leg. His only offense was asking at a dinner table, “Could we take a look at the accounts for that road?”
That night, on the lowest shelf in the archives room, Lin Xiangbei finds seventeen complaint letters marked “no evidence found.” They were all closed within the same three-day period, and the handwriting is identical.
Someone had dealt with every lead before he arrived.
Starting with a single bank statement and pushing through the defenses of thirty-seven people without a confession, every step closer to the truth brings danger closer too.
The author spent months researching in Gansu. The details of the cases in this book are drawn from real frontline material. There is no golden finger, only the weight of reality.
