Red Jade
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
While investigating two bodies found in Chinatown's historic Tong battleground, NYPD Detective Jack Yu's pursuit takes him from New York's Chinatown to Seattle's Chinatown, tracking a cold-blooded Chinese-American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale
The bodies of a young man and woman are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, Chinatown’s historic Tong battleground. NYPD Detective Jack Yu had thought he was done working in Chinatown, but old allegiances pull him back in. Is it a simple murder-suicide? The grieving families want him to keep a lid on any stories that might further tarnish their family names—but the Golden Galaxy club, where the young woman worked, is made for scandal. Drugs, snakeheads, smuggled prostitutes: “Girls don’t last long before getting dirty.”
As a puzzling web of links between the murders and the criminal underworld reveals itself, Yu’s investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle. In the new city, stymied by the uncooperative local cops, he tracks a cold-blooded Chinese American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale.
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What started as a promising series has devolved into something just run-of-the-mill, as shown by Chang's third procedural featuring NYPD detective Jack Yu (after 2008's Year of the Dog). A murder-suicide in Chinatown of a Chinese-American couple leads Yu's former commander to call him in as a public relations gesture to an influential citizens' group. The case proves to be open and shut, and the book primarily deals with the detective's efforts to tie up loose ends from the murder of Uncle Four, a gang leader, by tracing the whereabouts of Four's mistress, Mona. When the trail points to Seattle, where, coincidentally, Yu's love-interest, lawyer Alexandra Lee-Chow, is set to receive an award, he travels there on his own dime. The plot contrivances don't end there. Unlike, say, Ed Lin (Snakes Can't Run), Chang fails to make Chinatown engaging or his lead someone readers will want to spend more time with.
