Hardback: The bodies of a young man and woman are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, Chinatown's historic Tong battleground. NYPD Detective Jack Yu had thought he was done working in Chinatown but old allegiances pull him back in. Is it a simple murder-suicide?
The grieving families want him to keep a lid on any stories that might further tarnish their names, but the Golden Galaxy club, where the young woman worked, is made for scandal. Drugs, snakeheads, smuggled prostitutes: "Girls don't last long before getting dirty."
As a series of puzzling links between the murders and the criminal underworld reveals itself, Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle. In the new city, stymied by the uncooperative local cops, he tracks a cold-blooded Chinese American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale.
Red Jade (2010) is the third noir suspense in the stunning Detective Jack Yu Investigation series.
About the author: Henry Chang is a New Yorker, a native son of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. His poems have appeared in the seminal Yellow Pearl anthology, and in Gangs In New York’s Chinatown. He has written for Bridge Magazine, and his fiction has appeared in On A Bed Of Rice and in the NuyorAsian Anthology. His debut novel Chinatown Beat (2006) garnered high praise from the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, among others.
Henry Chang is a graduate of CCNY (City College of New York). He has been a lighting consultant, and a Security Director for major hotels, commercial properties, and retail businesses in Manhattan.
He resides in the Chinatown area, and his ‘Chinatown Trilogy' of Chinatown Beat (2006), Year of the Dog (2008), and Red Jade (2010) are currently being developed for television and movies. His fourth book featuring NYPD detective Jack Yu, - Death Money - published March 2014.
Rating: 5/5
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