Hong Kong, China
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Publisher Description
1997: Hong Kong, China. No longer a prize of British colonialism, Hong Kong will enter a new realm of history as China reclaims what she sees as her most wayward child. No one knows what this change will bring. Will this become a new era of peace and prosperity for the city, uniting the people with a common goal and vision, all working for the glory of China?
Or will this mean the destruction of Hong Kong's way of life, a withdrawal of all the liberties enjoyed by the island's residents by a mainland government that views all trade as state secrets and the press as an enemy of the People's Republic?
Change can bring joy--but more often it brings fear. Among the varied individuals confronting this historic change:
Brandon Poole: One of Hong Kong's richest industrialists, he is a British aristocrat whose family helped colonize the city and whose love for it will keep him there...perhaps long past the time of safety.
Lacy Lock: A New York investment banker who comes to Hong Kong to make her mark and winds up with much more than she ever bargained for.
Cloud Van Hooten: A Dutch businessman hungry for success, whose dreams have drawn him to this city and whose love for one woman may doom them both.
Moia Hsu: A beautiful Chinese intellectual with ties to Beijing, whose love for Van Hooten and her country are tearing her apart.
These four people--and all the teeming masses of this wondrous place--will face the destiny of Hong Kong together. And the question all will seek the answer to is...Will the dragon destroy it's most precious treasure?
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
What will happen in Hong Kong when, on July 1, 1997, after 150 years of British rule, the People's Republic of China assumes control of the Crown Colony? That's the question energizing Arnote's new novel, a stylish if evanescent financial thriller that's his first hardcover after several paperback mysteries (Evil's Fancy, etc.). Arnote explores the impending odd-couple marriage of communism and capitalism through a large cast of characters. Davy Wong, young activist hero of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, is provided refuge in the island-city from evil Gen. Liu Wing of the People's Liberation Army by world-famous mega-billionaire Brandon Poole, scion of a legendary British line of Hong Kong entrepreneurs. Elsewhere in Hong Kong, New York financial analyst Lacy Locke, who has come to Asia to survey candidate corporations for her company's Pacific Rim mutual fund, meets Dutch fashion tycoon Claude Van Hooten and his exotic assistant, the sensual Moia Hsu, whose father is in the Trade Ministry in Beijing. Moia once had an affair with Liu Wing; now her former but still jealous lover is conspiring to ruin Van Hooten's company, Phuket Color. At the same time, Poole, who's possessed of the expertise and logistical machinery to industrialize China, has plans to buy Phuket Color and also to woo the lovely Lacy away from her philandering New York TV-anchor husband. Colorful cameo characters--including a sexy rock singer, a gay male model and a corrupt police superintendent--contribute to the action, played out against the well-evoked, exotic scenery of Hong Kong. There's adventure here as well as romance, but this enjoyably lightweight entertainment fails to face squarely the heavyweight question that looms over it. Author tour.
