Paperback: Fierce loyalties, staunch compassion, and a weakness for strays lead Bai Jiang, San Francisco's best-known souxun - people finder - into violent conflicts that test her pacifist beliefs.
Armed with Buddhist philosophy and wicked knife skills, Bai works at being a better person by following her conscience, while struggling with a quick temper, smart mouth, and what she likes to think of as "aggressive assertiveness."
When a girl goes missing in San Francisco's Chinatown, Bai, herself the mother of a twelve-year-old girl, is called on to find her. The trail leads to wannabe gangsters, flesh peddlers, real estate deals gone bad, and eventually to those who have marked Bai for death.
Enlisting the aid of her closest friend and partner, Lee - a sophisticated gay man who protects her, mostly from herself - and Jason - a triad assassin and the father of her daughter - Bai follows the dangerous trail of the missing girl, hoping to avoid the inevitable violence.
She confronts paid assassins and triad hatchet men, only to find that being true to her beliefs as a Buddhist and staying alive are often at odds.
At the same time, fighting a faceless enemy who seems committed to having her killed fills her with anger and fear that sometimes turns into a burning rage that threatens deadly consequences for her and those around her.
Flavoured with dark humour, White Ginger (2013) serves the perfect cocktail of wit, charm, sex and violence mixed with Chinese philosophy and heart-pounding action.
About the author: Thatcher Robinson is a full-time writer. He was previously employed as the chief operating officer of an Internet security firm that develops top-secret cyber-warfare materials for the military and various government agencies. Prior to that, he was a software specialist at IBM research laboratories in Research Triangle Par, North Carolina. He lives and writes in Northern California with his wife and two cats, all of whom boss him around. When he's not writing, he likes to swim laps and restore old cars.
White Ginger (2013) is the first book in the White Ginger series.
The second book in this series, Black Karma (2014), is out now.
Rating: 5/5
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