Finished Su 11/4/12
Inspector Jian is a tough, possibly corrupt Chinese detective, and he receives an emergency call from his daughter who is a student in Leeds, England, that she is in trouble. Wei Wei is her name. She's dropped out of college, and working as a waitress. Hangs around with a hoodlum and his gang named Black Fort. This guy is smuggling people into the country. Ding Ming and his wife are one of these people. Ding Ming speaks Mandarin, the language of mainland China. Cantonese is spoken by most Asians in England, and they are from Hong Kong.
Inspector Jian kidnaps Ding Ming to use him as a translator to try to find his daughter.
Wei Wei has made a snuff film with Black Fort, and Jian sees it, and believes his daughter is dead.
Keith is one of the smugglers who works with Black Fort. Ding Ming believes that Keith is his friend and will give him a job so that he can pay back the 'snakeheads'. The people that brought him from China. He paid $20,000 for the privilege.
My post at Good Reads-
Inspector Jian is a corrupt, yet big-hearted Chinese detective who gets an abrupt emergency call from his daughter who hysterically demands that she needs him NOW! He drops everything, and heads to Leeds, England with limited resources, almost nothing to go on, and absolutely no knowledge of the English language.
That's the way this fast-paced adventure thriller begins, and it never lets up for a second. It's a great tale from start to finish, and I could barely put it down. The novel is a fast-paced topical heroic story, and provides some interesting insights about what an Asian foreigner's perceptions might be in a Northern England metropolitan city.
This demands to be made into a film!!
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