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Drug traffic Investigation England London Fiction England London Fate and fatalism Fiction Gangs England London Fiction Journalists Crimes against Fiction London (England) Social conditions Fiction Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Marginality, Social England London Fiction Police England London Fiction Social conditionsBarker, Susan
Summary: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humor and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl. The book then moves to 1969 where Frances, Christopher's Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Swan 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARJames, Bill
Summary: When a journalist is murdered for digging too deeply into the affairs of drug kingpin Adrian Pelotte, Detective Chief Superintendent Esther Davidson comes under pressure to find the killer quickly and prevent a drug war between Pelotte and his rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMBoyd, William
Summary: Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him, his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010