Death of a Blue LanternInspector Wang Anzhuang of the Public Security Bureau is expecting a pleasant night out at the People's Opera House. Instead, he finds himself face to face with a murder victim a victim who has slipped through the hands of even China's relentless, all seeing system of mass surveillance.

and the spinning wheels of chance

Along with the floating grog shops and brothels come the 'war tourists' - aristocratic gentlemen of leisure travelling in their luxurious yachts to see the war first-hand

an idealistic young doctor

When shooting a documentary in Kashmir about the Indian army and their conflict with the Pakistanis

And as more victims are discovered

would take for granted that the British would have behaved themselves

When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant

she hears whispers about ghosts moving among those still living and a strange inn-keeper whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion

So fasten your seatbelts

who turns out to be one of the few likeable characters in this wickedly amusing romp

How was it that the unremarkable younger son of a rich plutocrat

her boyfriend of ten years)