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As someone who has written about his own experience in this manic metropolis, I was delighted when fellow author Mike Smith forwarded me a collection of short stories he'd been working on along with the polite request `If you enjoy reading them, would you mind providing a quote for the book cover?' Did I enjoy reading them?! I thought they were thoroughly intriguing, well-written and humorous too. Moreover, I felt these long-awaited vignettes of Hong Kong life during the expat days would deserve...
I rarely abandon books and in most cases, when it happens it is my own fault, like with this book: I had totally different expectations. I expected a fiction thriller inspired by true events. This is however a collection of anecdotes (some reviews refer to it as short stories which doesn't work for me here) as told by a former expat Hong Kong police officer. At this point I am one third through the book and so far there hasn't been a story that really got me hooked. But who knows, this might cha...
I'm apologising to my book club for this book that I added to our list! I think the book would have been improved by a good editor. It was a series of short stories where the author shared some anecdotes of his more than 30 years in Hong Kong. Many of the stories had no point though. It was like he was telling "war stories" to a group of mates in a bar and someone told him he should write a book. Sorry book club!!!
enjoyable tales of dubious veracity of the "good old days" (at least for whitey) in Hong Kong
Really enjoyed this. Very interesting background to the 70s in Hong Kong and some great anecdotes as well.
Fun, bizarre and intense. I can't resonate. I met the author in person--never short of amazing stories.
