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Goldsboro Books

9781784971519

The Borrowed - Limited Edition

The Borrowed - Limited Edition

by Chan Ho-Kei

Publisher Head of Zeus

Genre: Crime

Released:

  • Signed by the Author
  • UK First Edition
  • First Printing
  • Hardcover
  • Limited Edition


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About the book

Translated by Jeremy Tiang

Six interlocking stories.
One spellbinding novel.

The year is 2013, and Hong Kong's greatest detective is dying. For fifty years, Inspector Kwan quietly solved cases while the world changed around him. Now his partner Detective Lok has come to his deathbed for help with one final case.

Where there is murder, there is humanity. This bold and intricate crime novel spans five decades of love, honour, race, class, jealousy and revenge in one of the most intriguing nations in the world.

This is the story of a man who let justice shine in the space between black and white. This is the story of Hong Kong.

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About the Author

Chan Ho-Kei

Chan Ho-Kei was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, script writer, game designer and editor of comic magazines.


His writing career started with the short story The Murder Case of Jack and the Beanstalk, which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He won the award the next year with The Locked Room of Bluebeard.


Chan’s first novel, The Man Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, the biggest mystery award in the Chinese-language world, and was published in five languages.

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