'A very scary movie': how China snatched Gui Minhai on the 11.10 train to Beijing

Revealed: details of the extraordinary detention of the Hong Kong bookseller as he sought help from Swedish diplomats The 11.10am to Beijing left on time, gliding out of Shanghai's cavernous high-speed rail terminal and darting north through the cheerless suburban sprawl. On board the sleek, white bullet train sat an unlikely trio of Europeans, one of whom held the key to a real-life political thriller so frightening and tangled it has left all those trying to decipher it both gripped and unnerv...