The borrowed
The borrowedChan Ho-Kei

The borrowed (2016)

Chan Ho-Kei

Creators: Mixed

Follows six cases from the fifty-year career of brilliant Hong Kong detective Kwan Chun-dok, each from a pivotal period of the territory's history, from Chun-dok's experiences in the 1967 leftist riot to his final 2013 case in a Hong-Kong growing to resemble a police state.

ISBN:
9780802125880
Length:
496 pages

Genres: mystery

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And the novel definitely earns points from me for its very intricate plotting and its mechanical depth, but I didn't like the pacing of it. Even though these were short stories, sometimes I was kind of wishing for them to just be over and get to the next one, hoping that each one would be better.

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