SUFFOCATED A vehicle crammed with dozens of dead Chinese immigrants is found in southern Texas. Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell must put aside her horror and find out why. SUMMONED Detective Li Yan -- an even more unwelcome memory for Campbell -- has arrived stateside to investigate a link in the case to a lucrative trade in illegal laborers. SNAKEHEAD Li and Campbell will soon find that the crime scene hides another secret: a biological time bomb linking traffickers, politicians, and migrants in Beijing, Washington, and Texas -- posing multiple countries one very singular threat. Peter 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 BCC, 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. He has 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 southwest France with his wife, writer Janice Hally. "The plot twists and turns like the tail of a Chinese dragon. A cracking good read."-Shots Magazine "Fast and exciting . . . Highly topical, this is an entertaining read that will also give its readers food for thought."-The Irish Times "A spell-binding and frighteningly realistic tale."-Aberdeen Evening Express Praise for Peter May "Peter May is an author I'd follow to the ends of the earth."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "He is a terrific writer doing something different."-Mark Billingham, bestselling author of the Tom Thorne series "From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer."-Sophie Hannah, bestselling writer of The Monogram Murders