by Jan-PhilippSendker (Author), Jan-PhilippSendker (Author), Jan-Philipp Sendker (Author), Jan-Philipp Sendker (Author)
During a trip to China, Paul and Christine experience the nightmare of every parent: their four year old son is kidnapped. They are reunited after a few hours but the kidnappers, very powerful people in today's China with close contacts to the police, dearly want the child back. The only safe place for the family is the US embassy in Beijing, but they are two thousand miles away, with the police searching franticly for them, and all airports, train stations and major roads under surveillance. They'll have no chance without help from strangers, but who will be willing to risk their lives for them?
Whom can they trust?
The Far Side of the Night is a powerful, transporting novel about the struggle to maintain humanity in an impossible situation.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
Published: 07 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1846974178
ISBN 13: 9781846974175
Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, was the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. He has travelled extensively in China and Burma and has an in-depth knowledge of the people and culture. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a non-fiction book about China. Global bestseller The Art of Hearing Heartbeats was his first novel.