Jade Woman
By (Author) Jonathan Gash
Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
5th October 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
304
Width 181mm, Height 104mm, Spine 19mm
150g
Hong Kong - one of the world's most exciting and colourful cities.
The Triads - violent, secretive and totally ruthless, their Hong Kong is a city no tourist dare visit. The Jade Women - famed for their beauty, they possess charms few men can resist...Which proves to be a highly combustible mix for Lovejoy - East Anglia's hottest antique dealer - on the run from some sticky problems back home. But for someone with no money and no passport, Hong Kong can be an alarmingly dangerous place. Especially when the Triads get involved and Lovejoy finds himself up against murder - oriental style.Praise for Jonathan Gash: 'Irrepressible... bounteous entertainment' Sunday Times'Lovejoy is up to his old tricks again... compelling stuff' Today'Unabashedly amoral, witty and crammed with treasures of every sort... Pure, unadulterated Lovejoy' Publishers WeeklyAn exuberant mixture of antique fakery, lechery and murder - The Times
The wisest and wildest antiques dealer of them all - Literary ReviewA sparkling new start for the old faker. The background is brilliantly described. Look forward to Lovejoy's next stop - Mail on SundayCollector's tips, ramshackle amours, outright thuggery and broad mirth - Sunday TimesA real virtuoso performance... a riotous success - Birmingham PostJONATHAN GASH is the pen name of John Grant, who also wrote under the name of Graham Gaunt. Born in 1933 in Bolton, Lancashire, Grant trained as a doctor and worked as both a GP and a pathologist. He also served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he rose to the rank of Major, and was head of bacteriology at the University of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His first Lovejoy novel, The Judas Pair, won the Crime Writers' Association prestigious John Creasey award in 1977. Grant lives in Colchester, Essex.