About the author: Henry Chang was born and raised in New York's Chinatown where he still lives. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and City College of New York (CCNY). He has apparently been called "the Dashiell Hammett of Chinatown". His two novels in the Jack Yu series - Chinatown Beat (2006) and Red Jade (2010) - have been published to critical acclaim. Year of the Dog (2008) is his second book in the Detective Jack Yu Investigation trilogy. Chang is now working on a new Detective Jack Yu sextet which will bring the protagonist around the world and also New York City.
More can be learned on the author's Chinatown trilogy website or you can read Murder on Mott Street published in The New York Times in the year 2008.
Videos that encompass his noir trilogy:
Backcover blurb: There are Chinatowns in many different countries all around the globe. But wherever they are located geographically, Chinatown is one community. Jack Yu, American-born, became one of the few ethnically Chinese officers in the NYPD. Now Jack has been promoted out of the Chinatown Precinct. But he cannot get away from Chinatown's criminals - his old friends.
First paragraph in the book: The Ninth Precinct started at the East River, and ran west to Broadway. On the north it was bounded by Fourteenth Street; on the south, Houston. Within these confines, the neighborhoods were the East Village, Loisaida, NoHo, Alphabet City, and Tompkins Square. Anarchists, artists, students, and the low-income working class all lived together, sometimes tenuously, until their breaking points made the Daily News headlines.
Last word in: I will be back with more Chinese-themed books soon and hope that you are busy reading just as I am!
Rating: 4/5
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