Henry Carter Hull

Former Beijing investigator Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national on parole from a Tibetan gulag, witnesses the death of the Chinese Minister of Tourism who was shot while in her car, and is promptly arrested for the crime, but he convinces authorities to release him only to be forced to go in search of the real killer after Colonel Tan, a man Yun needs to secure the release of his imprisoned son, is arrested in his place.

Tintin goes off on an expedition to all corners of the world looking for his friend Chang who is reported killed in a plane crash in Nepal.