Skinner's Box (Fang Mu (Eastern Crimes) Book 2)
Book Details
Author(s)Lei Mi
ISBN / ASINB00DJA5YOU
ISBN-13978B00DJA5YO7
Sales Rank406,551
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A perfect mix between Chinese versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Silence of the Lambs.
In China, teachers are supposed to receive gifts on Teacher's Day. This year, one teacher received only death.
The killer is soon caught, but before he can be sentenced, he stages a death-defying prison break. His guilt is beyond doubt. Why then did Fang Mu testify on the killer's behalf?
And why does a man who has offered a home to so many abandoned children spend his days staring at the black framed picture of a child?
In tunnels, hidden deep beneath the city, someone electrocutes a man to death; In a store, blood suddenly drips from a teddy bear; The castrated corpse of a man is found, in his arms a fully clothed “girl†….
Are these the victims of a strange experiment, or were they themselves perverted killers? Is this all some cathartic play or a hellish ritual?
Fang Mu is again swept up in a maelstrom of violence and this time he is no longer a student, but a fully-fledged police officer. Yet, he must face his own demons as they relentlessly drive him away from the investigation.
Will Fang Mu serve as an officer of the law or fulfill his mentor's dying wish and turn his back on the dark world of crime and punishment?
“Skinner's Box†is another compelling story in the Eastern Crimes series. It sends the reader down a twisting path full of enigmatic clues. And nothing can prepare Fang Mu – or the reader – for the shock of discovering the twisted ethics that guide the killer's hand. In “Profilerâ€, Fang Mu was challenged by a depraved criminal, eager to match his wits against an “acclaimed geniusâ€, what strange force motivates the “Skinner's Box†killer?
Join Fang Mu on an entirely unique journey through the extremes of both criminal psychology and modern Chinese society.
Editorial Review
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Author Lei Mi has been called the king of the Chinese crime novel. Employed at China Criminal Police University as a teacher of criminal psychology, he has a clear insight into all sorts of criminal behavior.
By December 2012, City Lights, the fourth book in the Psychological Criminals series (which, along with the prequel The Seven Readers, has been called the Fang Mu series by readers), was hot off the press and had climbed straight to fifth place in Amazon China's new release rankings list in the suspense category.
Lei Mi is renowned for weaving a wide web of seemingly unrelated events into his stories. In this labyrinth, the reader is always left guessing which turns lead down their own, separate paths and which toward the mystery's final resolution. Using a deft pen planted firmly in the foundations of realism, a heavy flavor of the aesthetics of crime, trains of thought and reasoning that are totally different from what ordinary people might be used to, and reflections on ethics that are truly thought-provoking, the author has provided readers with a new perspective from which to understand a realistic version of China society.
In China, teachers are supposed to receive gifts on Teacher's Day. This year, one teacher received only death.
The killer is soon caught, but before he can be sentenced, he stages a death-defying prison break. His guilt is beyond doubt. Why then did Fang Mu testify on the killer's behalf?
And why does a man who has offered a home to so many abandoned children spend his days staring at the black framed picture of a child?
In tunnels, hidden deep beneath the city, someone electrocutes a man to death; In a store, blood suddenly drips from a teddy bear; The castrated corpse of a man is found, in his arms a fully clothed “girl†….
Are these the victims of a strange experiment, or were they themselves perverted killers? Is this all some cathartic play or a hellish ritual?
Fang Mu is again swept up in a maelstrom of violence and this time he is no longer a student, but a fully-fledged police officer. Yet, he must face his own demons as they relentlessly drive him away from the investigation.
Will Fang Mu serve as an officer of the law or fulfill his mentor's dying wish and turn his back on the dark world of crime and punishment?
“Skinner's Box†is another compelling story in the Eastern Crimes series. It sends the reader down a twisting path full of enigmatic clues. And nothing can prepare Fang Mu – or the reader – for the shock of discovering the twisted ethics that guide the killer's hand. In “Profilerâ€, Fang Mu was challenged by a depraved criminal, eager to match his wits against an “acclaimed geniusâ€, what strange force motivates the “Skinner's Box†killer?
Join Fang Mu on an entirely unique journey through the extremes of both criminal psychology and modern Chinese society.
Editorial Review
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Author Lei Mi has been called the king of the Chinese crime novel. Employed at China Criminal Police University as a teacher of criminal psychology, he has a clear insight into all sorts of criminal behavior.
By December 2012, City Lights, the fourth book in the Psychological Criminals series (which, along with the prequel The Seven Readers, has been called the Fang Mu series by readers), was hot off the press and had climbed straight to fifth place in Amazon China's new release rankings list in the suspense category.
Lei Mi is renowned for weaving a wide web of seemingly unrelated events into his stories. In this labyrinth, the reader is always left guessing which turns lead down their own, separate paths and which toward the mystery's final resolution. Using a deft pen planted firmly in the foundations of realism, a heavy flavor of the aesthetics of crime, trains of thought and reasoning that are totally different from what ordinary people might be used to, and reflections on ethics that are truly thought-provoking, the author has provided readers with a new perspective from which to understand a realistic version of China society.
