- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Headline Feature; New edition edition (12 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747259038
- ISBN-13: 978-0747259039
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,374,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For Hong Kong policeman Laurie McKillop, his role has become largely symbolic since the handover. But when he is contacted by an old CIA acquaintance with a tale of a secret Chinese-American weapons project, he finds himself back in the front line.
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Format:Hardcover
I thought this book was a brilliant read, with a gripping plot. It also brought Hong Kong to life very convincingly.
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I am interested in the Far East and books about Hong Kong, Malaysia, etc. This book has an interesting premise, about a British policeman who is still working for the force even after the Chinese have taken over, and is working for the man who, before the Chinese took over, killed his friend. The reason the British policeman stays on is twofold: his Chinese wife and kids have left him, and he hopes to get them back; and he hopes to avenge his friend's death. So the story is interesting, and in fact unfolds in unpredictable ways. There are points in the book, however, which are unclear (for example, whether a passage is a flashback or in the present; a comment which is unclear). The book starts slowly, but then starts to pick up pace. It's probably not one of the better books written about Hong Kong. If you want a really good book, I would recommend John Gordon Davis' books about Hong Kong (and about Africa). But this book has a good story that will make me continue in the ceremony of reading.
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Ceremony of Innocence by Humphrey Hawksley
25 Jan 2000
Format:Hardcover
Humphrey Hawksley who is well known as Far Eastern BBC Correspondent and more recently war correspondent in Kossovo and Timor uses his journalistic knowledge of the Far East to reveal in all too chilling and convincing detail what might be going on behind the headlines. He is one of the best informed and therefore one of the more frightening political writers around. Ceremonies of Innocence, his first solo novel, gets China right in many ways (as a Peking resident his descriptions of the streets, the bars, the corridors of government all ring true to me) and his projections of how the future might be - a cynical, sad and slowly more compromised Hong Kong, the forces of reform in a death grip struggle with the old guard in the military and the party, again ring true with the present trends as China goes through a time of great change. But Hawksley's books are not all politics: his cast of characters are real people with testing moral dilemmas,and their predicaments affect you. So do the sensual love scenes. Ceremony of Innocence and its successor Absolute Measures are superb thrillers in every way.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Thriller That Counts
9 May 2000
Format:Paperback
Hawksley's background is impeachable, the subject matter relevant and timely, and Mike McKillip a character potentially worth following. Now that the Cold War is over, we need to turn eyes on the China region he knows so well. First rate.
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