Chinatown Beat
  • Published: 15 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9781616957179
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 242
  • RRP: $19.99

Chinatown Beat

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Henry Chang's debut in the Jack Yu series, hailed by the Boston Globe as "stunning," returns in a beautiful new $9.99 Passport to Crime repackage!

Detective Jack Yu is assigned to the Chinatown precinct as the only officer of Chinese descent. He investigates a series of attacks on children and a missing mistress, shifting between the world of street thugs and gangs and the Chinatown of the rich and powerful.

When Detective Jack Yu is transferred to New York’s Chinatown, he isn’t ready to face the changes in his old neighborhood. His childhood friends are now hardened gangsters, his father is dying, and he is constantly reminded of this teenage blood brother, murdered in front of him years before.

Then community leader and tong boss Uncle Four is gunned down and his mistress goes missing. But unlike the rest of the culturally clueless police department, Jack knows his district’s gritty secrets. He will have to draw on his knowledge in order to catch this killer in a crime-ridden precinct where brotherhoods are just as likely to distribute charity as mete out vigilante justice.
  • Published: 15 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9781616957179
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 242
  • RRP: $19.99
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Praise for Chinatown Beat

Praise for Chinatown Beat

  • "Chang has a cool, measured style that lets in some light...on a society that lives by its own rules."--The New York Times Book Review
  • "For readers who relish noir suspense, it doesn't get much better than this stunning novel."--Boston Globe
  • "[Chang], who grew up in Chinatown, keeps things fresh...This is a nasty, terse slice of noir, and Yu is a fellow whose adventures should be worth following."--Washington Post Book World
  • "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...A real discovery."--Richard Price, author of Lush Life, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
  • "Chang's debut novel is one of this year's most impressive....[Yu] is a character well worth knowing."--January Magazine, Best Crime Fiction of the Year

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