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The Amnesty Trap

Words: 3051 · Source Novel:: Death on the Blue Express

As the Beiyang government grants amnesty to bandit chief Sun Meiyao to resolve the diplomatic crisis, Arthur discovers that Sun's former lieutenant, a literate and bitter man named Guo Zhendong, fits the killer's profile. Guo had once been a schoolmaster whose wife deserted him for a foreign merchant. Arthur learns that Guo sees the chaos of the Lincheng Outrage as divine permission to cleanse the rails of traitors to love.