SeriesDetective Robert Chow
Series author: Ed Lin
3 Works
Popularity 57,437 (75 Members)
103 Books
6 Reviews
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| This Is a Bust by Ed Lin 57 copies, 2 reviews | 1 |
| Snakes Can't Run: A Mystery (Thomas Dunne Books) by Ed Lin 22 copies, 2 reviews | 2 |
| One Red Bastard by Ed Lin 23 copies, 2 reviews | 3 |
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- Ed Lin turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City’s Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow’s troubles are compounded by the fact that he’s basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he’s the only Chinese American on the Chinatown beat, and the only police officer who can speak Cantonese, but he’s never assigned anything more challenging than appearances at store openings or community events. (English, Unclassified)
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