The Outcast (Nergui Book 3)
As Mongolia bakes in the sweltering summer heat, the country prepares to celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan’s rise to power. But the dramatic shooting of a suicide bomber in Suukbataar Square and the discovery of a body recreating a macabre historical scene jar events violently back to the present.
Struggling with the investigation and his personal life, Doripalam turns to Nergui, his one-time mentor and now a powerful figure in the Ministry of Security – but Nergui appears as baffled as he is.
As the heat intensifies, Nergui and Doripalam follow the trail to Genghis Khan’s birthplace. Beneath the beating sun, out in the vastness of the steppes, a chilling figure emerges – a figure from Nergui’s past, an outcast, who has returned to exact revenge, both on Nergui himself and on the nation that rejected him.
The Adversary (Nergui Book 2)
For more than twenty years a hidden hand has ruled the backstreets of Ulan Baatar, but now Muunokhoi, the once untouchable head of Mongolia’s largest and most powerful criminal empire, has finally been caught.
It should be the Serious Crime Team’s finest hour. But nothing is ever that simple in Mongolia.
When Muunokhoi’s trial starts to collapse, Nergui and Doripalam – the ex-head of the Team and his one-time protege – are forced to acknowledge that something rotten lies at the heart of the organization they have dedicated their lives to.
With the crime lord’s acquittal impending, and his revenge a cold certainty, Nergui and Doripalam are not even sure they can trust each other.
The Shadow Walker (Nergui Book 1)
Set in a country struggling to come to terms with the legacy of its past and the promise of its future, The Shadow Walker is a gripping thriller that introduces Inspector Nergui of the Mongolian Serious Crime squad.
As winter’s first snow falls on Ulan Baatar, the mutilated body of a British geologist is found in the city’s most expensive hotel, apparently the fourth victim of a serial killer. With political pressure to solve the crimes mounting, Nergui, ex-head of the Serious Crime Squad, is ordered back to his former role, building an uneasy working relationship with his successor and protege, Doripalam, and with Drew McLeish, a senior British CID officer sent out to support the investigation.
But the murders continue – leading the officers through the disused factories of the decaying city, out on to the steppes among nomadic herdsmen and illegal gold prospectors, and down into the barren landscapes of the Gobi. And then McLeish himself is kidnapped.
With political tensions mounting and time draining away, Nergui and Doripalam piece together a case that encompasses both personal tragedy and shadowy commercial interests in Mongolia’s vast mineral and energy reserves. And, finally, in a long-abandoned warehouse amongst the decaying Soviet-era factories of Ulan Baatar, Nergui comes face to face with the only figure who can bring the story to its shattering conclusion.
Alex Walters 