The Borrowed

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781487000615

<p><strong>A propulsive crime drama featuring a legendary Hong Kong detective on a decades-long quest to expose the city’s dark underbelly.</strong></p><p>Covering six cases that span Kwan Chun-dok’s impressive fifty-year career, <i>The Borrowed</i> takes readers on a tour of Hong Kong history from the Leftist Riot in 1967; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; to the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultraviolent gangsters, stallholders at the city’s many covered markets, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. </p><p>A gripping and brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice in crime fiction, <i>The Borrowed</i> paints a dynamic portrait of Hong Kong and reveals just how closely the past and present are connected in this fascinating city. </p>