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Tough Investigations in Tibet
Tibet is a poor countryside filled with a cold climate. The people are poor and scrape a living out of small farming and some farm animals. There are monks and nuns in few remaining abbeys who bustle about trying to survive on even less than the rest of the Tibetans.
There are also lots of Chinese … there is the army, there is the police, there is some sort of Secret Service … and there are labour camps. In these camps mainly Tibetans, many of them monks, are detained, however, also some Chinese. There is hard work and little food – and draconic punishments for misconduct. So there are also fatal casualties.
… and there is Inspector Chan.
Once Chan was a successful police officer, however, he fell from grace – it doesn’t matter why. His personal file doesn’t reveal any reasons, when he arrived in a labour camp in Tibet. From this point in time on he was simply a prisoner like all the other.
Chan tries to adapt and to survive and he manages quite a lot of obstacles in his new life. He is alone because his wife got divorced from him taking their son with her. There are no signs of life since then from both. Chan is convinced that his wife lives as privileged as before working successfully at her career. Well, years later he learns about his son who goes astray and also ends up …
In the labor camp Chan finds new friends, especially a wise old monk, once head of an abbey. He helps Chan and they create a solid friendship lasting for years. So what happens with Chan?
The commanding officer of the labor camp meets a problem and thinks that Chan, a former police inspector and brilliant investigator may help him solve the case. A corpse is found without a head, but it seems that it is a foreigner, an US American. All of a sudden political pressure hovers over the commanding officer – and so Chan is entitled to investigate.
There are more cases … finally Chan is permitted to leave the labor camp, but he has to stay in the Tibetan region. Time and again there are crimes, murders – and Chan investigates either by command of the army or the local police or privately. In the meantime he has got a small, negligible job in administration where he is always within reach of the Chinese.
Tibet doesn’t change much. There is the cold and poverty, there are the monks and nuns chased by the Chinese, the Tibetans trying to survive … Time and again there are foreigners exploring Tibet on their own account and risk meeting crime, injuries and death. There are antiquities hidden in dilapidated abbeys or secret caves which are much sought after by foreigners. Chan is always challenged to investigate and at the same time often to protect his friends resp. any innocent bystanders.
The novels take you away into a strange world where crimes are committed mainly by the same reasons as anywhere, but the landscape, the people, the religion form a background hiding many an obvious action – not to forget the rule that silence helps to survive.