Thursday, January 08, 2009

Pg. 69: Simon Lewis' "Bad Traffic"

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis.

About the book, from the publisher:
Inspector Jian is a tough Chinese cop who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter takes him to the meanest streets he's ever faced -- in rural England.

Migrant worker Ding Ming is distressed -- his gang master is making demands, he owes a lot of money to the snakeheads, and no one will tell him where his wife has been taken. Maybe England isn't the Gold Mountain he was promised.

Two desperate men, lost in a baffling foreign land, are pitted against a ruthless band of human traffickers in this breathtaking thriller.
Read an excerpt from Bad Traffic and learn more about the book and author at Simon Lewis' website and blog.

Simon Lewis was born in Wales and grew up in Scotland. He is the author of the Rough Guides to China, Beijing, and Shanghai, and the backpacker novel Go, which he wrote in a village in the Himalayas. He spends half his time in Brixton, London, and the rest in Asia, mostly China and Japan.

The Page 69 Test: Bad Traffic.

--Marshal Zeringue