num_pages: 264
description: Detective Inspector Chen is the Singapore Three police department's snake agent - the detective in charge of supernatural and mystical investigations. Chen has several problems: in addition to colleagues who don't trust him and his mystical ways, a patron goddess whom he has offended and a demonic wife who's tired of staying home alone, he's been paired with one of Hell's own vice officers, Seneschal Zhu Irzh, to investigate the illegal trade in souls. Political pressures both Earthly and otherworldly seek to block their investigations at every turn. As a plot involving both Singapore Three's industrial elite and Hell's own Ministry of Epidemics is revealed, it becomes apparent that the stakes are higher than anyone had previously suspected.
language: English
title: Snake Agent
titlecomplete: Snake Agent (Detective Inspector Chen, #1)
genres: Crime, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Demons, Fantasy, China, Paranormal, Mystery
ratings_count: 2359
series: Detective Inspector Chen
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Tähtifantasia Award
publisher: Night Shade