by Mitchell Sam Rossi (Pinnacle). Well, it’s certainly an inventive premise: the empress dowager really gave Hong Kong to Britain forever - and agents on every side must race around to find the long-lost document.
by Ralph Arnote (TOR Fiction). A Chinese protagonist who is actually likable, Moia Hsu comes complete with an ex-boyfriend who follows her, muttering, ““The capitalist pig was teaching her the habits of ruttish swine.''
by John Burdett (Morrow). Three victims turn up in vats of acid in this gruesome mystery starring a police detective named . . . Charlie Chan. Dares to include real racial tensions between Hong Kong Chinese and erstwhile British rulers.
The New Bond Adventure, by Raymond Benson (Putnam). This director of the Ian Fleming Foundation goes full tilt on 007 cliches: cocktails at the Mandarin Hotel, cool gadgets, evil albino triplets and, of course, girls girls girls.
