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Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong-based "Uncle," who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat. But her razorsharp intellect and resourcefulness allows her to succeed where traditional methods have failed.
In The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ava travels across continents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it's in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, he decides he wants a piece of Ava?s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share . . .
In the first of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces the reader to one of crime fiction's most unique and compelling heroines, and uncovers the dark machinations of the global shadow economy.
In The Water Rat of Wanchai, Ava travels across continents to track $5 million owed by a seafood company. But it's in Guyana where she meets her match: Captain Robbins, a huge hulk of a man and godfather-like figure who controls the police, politicians, and criminals alike. In exchange for his help, he decides he wants a piece of Ava?s $5 million action and will do whatever it takes to get his fair share . . .
In the first of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces the reader to one of crime fiction's most unique and compelling heroines, and uncovers the dark machinations of the global shadow economy.
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Ian Hamilton has been a journalist, a diplomat, and traveled the world as a businessman. He is the author of three previous books in the Ava Lee series, The Disciple of Las Vegas, The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, and The Red Pole of Macau. He lives in Burlington, Ontario, with his wife.
This is the eighth in the Ava Lee series, each novel of which offers a heady blend of exotic locales, foodie tips, biff-boff action, and a heroine with keen deduction, considerable skills in the martial art of bak mei, and a well-connected mentor. Ava is Chinese Canadian, based in Toronto, and works as a forensic accountant. She uses her skills in both accounting and interviewing to trace and retrieve money that has gone missing or has strayed from its rightful owners. She is sort of a cross between James Bond and Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski. The latest is a prequel to the other novels, showing the roots of Ava Lee’s international work at the behest of her “Uncle” (in the Chinese sense of a nonrelated mentor), who asks Ava to find $5 million for the nephew of a friend. Others are after the money, too, of course, and the action zooms from Toronto to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Guyana, and the British Virgin Islands, from five-star hotels to back alleys. Terrific fun. --Connie Fletcher
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- PublisherHouse of Anansi
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0887842518
- ISBN 13 9780887842511
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