TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written ten previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, which has been adapted for television by ITV. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards.As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.

"'A moody, murder mystery with all the style of a noir classic'" The Mirror "'Nigh on impossible to put down...This intelligent thriller brings Shanghai to life as Gorky Park did for Moscow'" Time Out "'Rich, dark, atmospheric, this fine novel captures time and place perfectly. A great crime story that ends up in a place you won't predict'" -- Lee Child "The atmosphere and menace of Twenties Shanghai is brought to vivid life as the backdrop to a gripping tale'" Daily Mail "'Master of Rain is that rare thing: a truly epic crime novel, brilliantly researched and superbly executed'" -- John Connolly

TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written ten previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, which has been adapted for television by ITV. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards.As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.

"'A moody, murder mystery with all the style of a noir classic'" The Mirror "'Nigh on impossible to put down...This intelligent thriller brings Shanghai to life as Gorky Park did for Moscow'" Time Out "'Rich, dark, atmospheric, this fine novel captures time and place perfectly. A great crime story that ends up in a place you won't predict'" -- Lee Child "The atmosphere and menace of Twenties Shanghai is brought to vivid life as the backdrop to a gripping tale'" Daily Mail "'Master of Rain is that rare thing: a truly epic crime novel, brilliantly researched and superbly executed'" -- John Connolly

TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written ten previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, which has been adapted for television by ITV. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards.As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.

"'A moody, murder mystery with all the style of a noir classic'" The Mirror "'Nigh on impossible to put down...This intelligent thriller brings Shanghai to life as Gorky Park did for Moscow'" Time Out "'Rich, dark, atmospheric, this fine novel captures time and place perfectly. A great crime story that ends up in a place you won't predict'" -- Lee Child "The atmosphere and menace of Twenties Shanghai is brought to vivid life as the backdrop to a gripping tale'" Daily Mail "'Master of Rain is that rare thing: a truly epic crime novel, brilliantly researched and superbly executed'" -- John Connolly