Publisher Description
Detective Jack Yu returns in a pulse-pounding fifth investigation in New York's Chinatown
Chinatown gang leader “Lucky” Louie was shot outside of a Chinatown off-track betting establishment on the thirteenth of January, and lay in a coma for 88 days, waking on Easter Sunday. The number 88 is a double-helix, double-lucky Chinese number; religion and superstition all lean Lucky’s way.
But Detective Jack Yu, Lucky’s boyhood blood brother, fears his friend’s luck is about to run out. When Lucky embarks on a complex and daring series of crimes against the Chinatown criminal underground, Jack races to stop him before his enemies do so—permanently.
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Jack Yu has no regrets about taking lives in self-defense in a spate of violent incidents, in Chang's middling fifth crime novel featuring the NYPD detective (after 2014's Death Money). His superiors have ordered him to see a psychotherapist, May McCann, who Jack is discomfited to find is not only Asian but extremely attractive. Jack's personal life has been in flux since his lover, Alexandra Lee-Chow, broke off contact in the midst of contentious divorce proceedings after he was caught on videotape taking the elevator to and from Alex's Chinatown apartment. All this serves as the less-than-compelling context for the main story line, in which Jack must deal with the crimes of a childhood friend, Lucky Louie, the former leader of the Ghost Legion gang. Lucky survived being shot twice in the head, but resumed a life of crime after his release from the hospital. Chang offers no new insights into the mind of a cop torn by divided loyalties to past and present. Agents: Dana Adkins and Debbie Phillips, Adkins & Phillips Agency.
