Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode The life of Chinese police chief Wang Lijun reads like something from crime fiction -- and is now the subject of a 40-page cover story in Southern Metropolis Weekly magazine. Wang is almost certainly the most famous -- or infamous -- police officer in China. The 53-year-old is former vice-mayor and police chief of Chongqing. That's the city he was brought in to clean up in a notorious "smash the black" anti-mafia campaign orchestrated by then communist party secretary Bo Xilai. Then in March Wang dramatically fled to the US consulate in nearby Chengdu. There he spent 30 hours speaking to US diplomats. After leaving he was detained and divulged details of the murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood, by Bo's wife, Gu Kailai. In September Wang was convicted of attempting to cover up the crime, defection, illegal wiretapping and corruption, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Bo, his former boss, has not been seen for nearly nine months and is being investigated -- officially on charges of corruption. The article examines Wang's life and career - and does him no favors. It describes his meteoric rise, claims he used media to create a positive public image; and delves into his ruthless --and apparently selective - crackdown on gangs in Chongqing. It also paints a picture of a mercurial character who hired and fired on a whim, enabled to do so by the opaque official recruitment system. And it concludes that in what it calls the ...