Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay

Set against the wretched trade in drugs and human misery operating during the Vietnam War, Bryce Courtenay's Fortune Cookie is a spellbinding thriller, with a story of love against impossible odds at its heart.

Enter a dark and dangerous world ...

Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese young man who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage.

With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, an unlikely hero, must save her at any cost.

Bryce Courtenay

Reviews

“ A multi-layered, cross-genre epic with tremendously broad appeal. ”

Sun-Herald

“ This book is Mad Men in a cheongsam with a burgeoning advertising industry and Chinese culture mixed with a healthy dollop of romance, mystery and intrigue. ”

West Australian

Paperback

9780143205616

January 3, 2012

Penguin

588 pages

RRP $24.95
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Trade Paperback

9780670074907

June 27, 2011

Viking

592 pages

RRP $29.95
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Hardback

9780670074082

November 15, 2010

Viking

592 pages

RRP $49.95
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Fortune Cookie

Bryce Courtenay

Paperback

9781742531731

November 15, 2010

Penguin Apps

592 pages

RRP $21.99
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EBook

9781742531649

November 15, 2010

Penguin eBooks

592 pages
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