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Synopsis

'This is a nasty, terse slice of noir, and Yu is a fellow whose adventures should be worth following.'-The Washington Post Book World

'For readers who relish noir suspense, it doesn't get much better than this stunning novel.'-The Boston Globe

'It is an evocative, often bleak, but fascinating view of being at 'cross-cultural odds' that fuels Chinatown Beat, the successful debut by New York author Henry Chang.'-South Florida Sun-Sentinel

'Chinatown Beat is a classic noir, filled with longing, violence, and that uniquely urban melancholy, but it also brings something new to the table, a loving specificity of a people and place, the multicultures of New York's Chinatown, that has rarely if ever been encountered in fiction before. A real discovery.'-Richard Price, author of Freedomland and Clockers

'An auspicious beginning.'-Richmond Times-Dispatch

NYPD Detective Jack Yu was raised in Chinatown. Some of his old friends are criminals now; some are dead. Recently transferred to his old neighborhood, where 99 percent of the cops are white, Jack is confronted with a serial rapist who preys on young Chinese girls. Then Uncle Four, an elderly leader of the charitable Hip Ching Society and member of the Hong Kong-based Red Circle Triad, is gunned down. To solve these crimes, Jack turns to both modern police methods and an ancient fortune-teller.

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