The Master of Rain

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All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bradby, Tom.

The master of rain / Tom Bradby.

p. cm.

1. Police—China—Shanghai—Fiction. 2. British—China—Fiction. 3. Shanghai (China)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6102.R33 M37 2002

823'.914—dc21

2001042199

eISBN 0-385-50410-1

Copyright © 2002 by Tom Bradby

All Rights Reserved

May 2002

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