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WoWasis book review: Stephen Leather’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ from Hong Kong

By herbrunbridge Posted in China, Crime Scams & Espionage, Culture & History, Literature, Politics , , | No Comments »

Stephen Leather never ceases to tantalize us. It’s not just the vicious murderers or the fetching murderesses, either. Hungry Ghost (ISBN 978-0-340-96072-1), originally published in 1992 and re-released in 2008, is replete with all the cerebral stuff we’ve grown to expect from the author. His “no stones unturned” approach is something we figure he picked […]

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