Rick Donovan is having a
tough time. First a fellow Hong Kong police officer goes missing,
then a friend is killed, and that's only the beginning. Finding
love amid the chaos was an unexpected bonus, then that too
is in peril as the dangers spill out of control.
Share A Crooked Rickshaw
(International Thriller)
By Norman Price
Independent Publishing
Platform
ISBN #978-1482391497
Price $10.15
268 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
It’s the 1960s Hong
Kong, and Chief Inspector Rick Donovan, of the Shaun-Shui-Po police department
is leading a raid on a drug house when one of the perps, a Chinese, a killed by
one of the officers. Found in the perp’s pocket is a wallet containing the
warrant card of a fellow officer. He is told to look into the evidence, and
attempts to contact the officer, but learns from his wife that her husband has
been missing for several days. Further investigation becomes even more clouded
when the officer doesn’t show up for work. Has he turned, and is working with
the Triads, or have they murdered him? To make matters worse, Rick has fallen
for the man’s wife, and they begin an affair.
More problems arise when
gangster disguised as police set up a road check and rob an army bank run, killing
the guards, then a smoke bomb is discovered on a tram, and inside is a demand
for one billion American dollars, or a dirty bomb will be detonated over Hong
Kong. Both seem connected to the missing officer. But everything goes awry when
a typhoon approaches Hong Kong.
This was a fascinating
story, and very enjoyable. The author ties the whole plot into the Rachael
typhoon of the period, and works it into the plot. There was a neat twist at
the end, which was totally unexpected, but I definitely liked. Highly
recommended. PULP DEN
Tom
Johnson
Author
of THE MAN IN THE BLACK FEDORA
