The Tiger Hunters of Tai O
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The Tiger Hunters of Tai O by John Saeki
Hong Kong, 1954. The British colony was not yet ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the police commissioner's daughter. Simon Lee tasted swift punishment. He was banished to the far tip of a wild and distant island a stone's throw from Chinese waters - to Tai O, the ancient trading post where fishermen, salt-farmers and refugees were thrown together with spies, pirates and Triads. Dolphins swam the waters, eagles fished the sea, and some still believed that a tiger prowled the hills at night. It was a place haunted by history, where corpses had floated in the bay when Japanese troops occupied the police station, and everybody had a secret about what they did during the war. Life was unpredictable for the band of misfits that staffed Tai O Police Station. But when a stranger was murdered on a beach, accused of being a Communist spy, Lee found himself on a collision course with his masters in Central. Who had the dead man been working for? What did the secret agents know? Why was Central so eager to brush the execution aside? And who or what really was the 'tiger'?
John Saeki spends his working days writing and designing maps, charts and information graphics on world news. When he is not composing explainers on pandemics, political turmoil and endangered wildlife, he heads through woodland valleys and over the hills, looking in wonder at the strange planet he finds himself on.His first novel, The Tiger Hunters of Tai O, was published by Blacksmith Books in 2017, featuring a fictional tiger on the hills of Lantau Island. After that, he went on the trail of real tigers that came to Hong Kong and found a treasure trove of forgotten history.He now lives in windswept Yorkshire, and often talks with his family of the wonderful animals he came across in his 20 years in the subtropics of Hong Kong.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789887792710 |
| ISBN 10 | 9887792713 |
| Title | The Tiger Hunters of Tai O |
| Author | John Saeki |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Blacksmith Books |
| Year published | 2021-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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