I love MYSTERIES, ROMANCE, NON-LINEAR NARRATIVES, and SPECULATIVE SCIENCE FICTION - anything that sparks my imagination or hooks my curiosity! I blog about the books that impress me or make me think.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The Ghost Shift, John Gapper
Contemporary spy novel/murder mystery set in Hong Kong. I thought there were two particularly brilliant things about this: 1) The protagonist finds herself reliving the steps (with small variations) of the murder victim's last days and hours; 2) The setting is incredibly creepy because there's this pervasive sense of being nobody, a person with no rights, whether that's the Guangdong factory, or the CIA black site. There's a nefarious mystery plot, of course, but the factory chapters with the description of the living and working conditions should be required reading for all Americans.
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