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Bad Traffic (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Sort Of Books (31 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954899555
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954899554
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 170,119 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence (crime blog)

One of my outstanding books of 2008 - Lewis's BAD TRAFFIC is an absolutely exceptional novel which had me mesmerised.


Waterstones Books Quarterly. No 69

A smart-paced, thoroughly entertaining crime-thriller, laced with black humour.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, gripping and at times very funny., 7 Mar 2008
Bravo to Lewis for combining a unique and exciting thriller with the brutal and topical issue of people trafficking. His delightfully venal anti-hero and guileless side kick find themselves pitched against both convincing and vicious murderers but also the background of a Britain made utterly alien and sinister by being seen through the eyes of the protagonist: a non English speaking Chinese detective,seeking a missing daughter on his first time out of his own country. Memorable.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bad Traffic - A review, 25 Feb 2008
By M. E. Steuerman - See all my reviews
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This is an excellent thriller: fast-paced, gripping and dark. The idea of a Chinese detective looking for his missing daughter in rural England works surprisingly well. We look at England and ourselves from a Chinese man's eyes and the result is funny, moving and sombre. Read it!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, Very Intense, 11 Mar 2009
By Sara Hackett (from the Darkside) - See all my reviews
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Ma Jian is an inspector for the Chinese State Police. He's a tough, no nonsense, cynical kind of cop. He's corrupt and he's used to bending the rules to get what he wants and what he wants is to find the men who kidnapped his daughter Wei Wei. She calls him while he's with his mistress, pleads for help and the line goes dead. When he can't get her back on the line, he flies to Leeds, England, where she's attending university.

However, he doesn't speak a word of the white devil's language and to further add to his problems, he gets mugged shortly after arrival. So now, in addition to not being able to communicate, he has no money or identification. At the university he resorts to shouting, but nobody understands. He gets some help from Wei Wei's flatmate and learns that she'd dropped out of school and was working as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant. It was while working at the restaruant that Wei Wei met the Chinese criminal named Black Forte. He asks her out and she becomes his girlfriend, then she's gone. Jian believe Black Forte has murdered Wei Wei and he sets out to get revenge.

But he still has that language problem so when he meets Ding Ming, a Chinese illegal, who speaks English, he enlists his aid, quite against the man's will I might add. Ding Ming is in search of his wife, also an illegal, who has been taken by Black Forte. Unknown to Ding Ming, she's going to be forced into a life of prostitution.

Both men want the same thing, to find Black Forte, but for different reasons and they don't trust each other. Plus they have no money, no way to find him and no transportation, so they start off on their own crime spree, stealing cash and cars on their way to an explosive ending that promises more books about these two men.

This is a very fast read and very entertaining read. Both Ma Jian and Ding Ming come across as real people. The gangster Black Forte is truly despicable and Jian's daughter and Ding Ming's wife are truly damsels in distress. Thrillerwise, this book has it all.
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2.0 out of 5 stars High action but lacked depth and dimension
First Sentence: Jian walked into Leeds University and handed his message, written for him on the back of an aeroplane boarding pass, to the front desk security guard... Read more
Published 7 months ago by L. J. Roberts

5.0 out of 5 stars More Suspense than You Can Shake a Stick At
Seeing the West, England specifically as foreign and alien was quite an experience for me. I've been there so many times it almost seems like home, but it's not home for the two... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Stephanie Sane

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Thriller with an Interesting Perspective
Human trafficking has gotten enough exposure in the last ten years that its worst excesses no longer have the power to shock and distress as they should. Read more
Published 8 months ago by A. Ross

4.0 out of 5 stars A welcome new approach to crime writing
Written as if with film or TV script in mind..... and could well end up as one of these. I liked the unusual view of the UK through Chinese eyes. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ms. M. Kolodziej

5.0 out of 5 stars What a relief
What a relief to pick this up after ploughing through a staggeringly wordy Iris Murdoch novel. The economy of style and blistering pace made it bliss to read - effortless - and... Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. Poll

4.0 out of 5 stars A thriller with a difference
Every detective writer wants to create a hero with issues but who we still manage to like, but Simon Lewis really sets himself up with a challenge; Jian, a Chinese answer to Life... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr Gladstone

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