There is a tense, pregnant feel to Hong Kong, for this is the time just before the Handover, when the People’s Republic of China will repossess the Crown Colony. Hongs and Triads – underworld organisations that are above the law – are concerned, since China’s policy is to eliminate criminal cliques.
The head of a Triad learns of the impoverished ‘no-family’ girl who talks to ghosts, and wonders if she could hold the answer to the questions of an uncertain future. Except that superstition is also forbidden by the incoming regime: the girl might be the last chance for his Triad’s survival – but believing in her might prove to be its destruction.
Jonathan Gash is an award-winning author who has been writing for thirty-five years. A retired doctor, he worked for many years in the Middle and Far East.