HONG KONG DRAMA — Latest book from Maroma Press

July 23, 2012 - PRLog -- HONG KONG: Maroma Press has re-issued Typhoon Season, a gripping thriller set in Hong Kong, as an ebook. It can be downloaded on all reading devices. And it's also out as a paperback.
Whichever way you choose to read Typhoon Season, you’ll find yourself on a roller-coaster ride.
Baird vividly captures the atmosphere of the so-called Pearl of the Orient thanks to his years working in Hong Kong as a journalist — both when it was a British colony and later when it returned to Chinese rule.
Meddling American journalist Clive Spillman finds himself on the run and accused of murder as he is hounded both by Triad gangsters and policemen.
Too late he is reminded of an old Chinese saying: "Sweep only the snow before your own doorstep — do not concern yourself with the frost on your neighbour's roof."
The action introduces the reader to the mysteries of the Kowloon Walled City and a Buddhist monastery, to sophisticated socialites with secrets to hide and to a kung-fu film star with lethal fists. Mix in heroin smugglers, CIA operatives, and soothsayers in contact with ancient spirits.
*A Times of London correspondent comments: “Thrilling novel…brilliantly evokes life in Hong Kong in the lead-up to the 1997 Handover to China.”
And Hong Kong reviewers have highly praised Typhoon Season.
*"A tightly constructed thriller that moves along at a cracking pace,” says the Sunday Morning Post.
*”Fluent prose and pithy plot-making make a few points clearly, quickly and dramatically,” declares the literary critic of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club, which features in the book.
The ebook edition of Typhoon Season is published by Smashwords. Find it at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/205789
Order the paperback from bookshops. Or buy it online direct from the publisher at maroma.press@gmail.com. Or via Amazon and other online retailers.
This is David Baird’s second work of fiction. His first, Don’t Miss The Fiesta!, is a chilling tale about a stranger who seeks the simple life in a Spanish village only to find himself embroiled in passionate intrigues.