Mongkok station, Jake Needham
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Mongkok station, Jake Needham
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non fiction
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Mongkok station
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Jake Needham
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An Inspector Samuel Tay novel, [#6]
Summary
"A city thats falling apart, a man whos falling apart, and a girl with a secret past who's disappeared without a trace. What complicates things, complicates the hell out of them actually, is that the missing girl is the daughter of one of the most powerful men in America. She just doesnt know it. Hong Kong is teetering on the edge of anarchy. Violent street battles are raging between riot police and mobs demanding democracy. Samuel Tay is a legendary Singapore homicide detective. Hes retired, but it was purely involuntary. It seems his legend made a lot of senior officers uneasy and they wanted him gone. John August is an American who has shadowy connections to the intelligence community. Hes done Tay a lot of favors in the past, and Tay owes him one. When August asks Tay to come to Hong Kong to track down the missing girl, Tay doesnt much want to go. August and his friends deal in the fate of nations. Tay deals with personal tragedies, one human being at a time. Even worse, he doesnt like Hong Kong and, to be completely honest, hes not all that fond of Americans either. Regardless, Tay answers Augusts call for help. Hes a man who honors his debts, his forced retirement really sucks, and theres this woman well, theres always a woman in there somewhere, isnt there? August thinks that the triads may have kidnapped the missing girl. Tay doesnt have the sources to get inside the Hong Kong triads so August teams him up with Jack Shepherd, an American lawyer living in Hong Kong who just might be the only white guy on the planet the triads trust. Tay is considerably less than thrilled by that. Here he is in a city that seems only moments away from going up in flames, everybody is certain the missing girl is dead, and now hes stuck with all these Americans. Can things get any worse than that? Oh yes, they absolutely can. Tay has developed symptoms that indicate he may be very seriously ill. For everybody, there is always a last time around the track whether they know it when they make the trip or not. As Tays symptoms worsen, it begins to dawn on him that this missing girl just might be his own last time around. If this really is the end for him, Samuel Tay vows hes going to go out with one hell of a bang."
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