- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (3 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752843737
- ISBN-13: 978-0752843735
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,207,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Eleven years ago, Stone kicked to death the bodyguard of Shooter, the man who had slashed his mother's face. Offending the gangster who runs Hull's underworld is not the way to have a nice time in jail and the disfiguring tattoos on Stone's face were no more his choice than the gang rapes. He wants revenge on Shooter as much as he wants a life that bears some relation to normality. Then he finds Ginny unconscious on the steps of his apartment and takes her in as much to protect himself from the law as for any other reason. She is in Hull from California looking for her best friend, Juliet, who has disappeared, and has been attacked for asking questions. Ginny's quest becomes his, both because he comes to love her, and because he suspects that neither disappearance or assault could have happened without Shooter's being in some way involved. Baker's intense psychological thriller takes us to the inside of Stone's head, and explores a violent man who is trying to change and to cope with more damage than is quite survivable. Its intense plotting, and real sense of evil, has room for passionate romance and some entertaining family comedy. --Roz Kaveney
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Stone Lewis is out of jail, and looking for something solid in his life. The battered girl he finds in his doorway is solid all right, and pulls him right back to the old world of psychos and dobermanns...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After an eleven year stretch Stoner Lewis has been out of jail for a few weeks and is trying to adjust to the world outside. Home is Hull, where the docks provide plenty of opportunities for criminal undertakings and Stoner knows some of the lowlifes only too well. But he's keeping well away from trouble and keeping an eye out for his mother, Sally and his aunt Nell who live nearby. Coming home from the pub one night he finds a beautiful Chinese girl, beaten-up and unconscious in the doorway of his basement flat. He takes her in and looks after her, finds out that she's come all the way from California to look for her friend whose frequent letters suddenly stopped arriving. Stoner agrees to help but before long the search brings them up against the violent psychopath who has the neighbourhood stitched up and a nasty line in henchmen and guard dogs. Baker creates an affectionate portrait of a man trying to stay on the straight and narrow after years banged up and of a man falling in love. Although The Chinese Girl contains some grisly and harrowing elements, the importance of dreams, the strength of love and the humanity of the characters create an ultimately uplifting novel which is refreshingly original and absorbing
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having never read a John Baker novel before I was extremely impressed by his style of writing. Chinese Girl is a very compelling book, which I couldn't put down. I wanted to reach the end so I knew the outcome, yet I wanted to take my time and savour the superb, yet bizarre characters, brought to life from its pages. It's a book that I could read again and again. I'm looking forward to the sequel and to reading Baker's Sam Turner series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
John Baker is best known for the Sam Turner mysteries which are set in York. For The Chinese Girl the setting has moved to the east coast port of Hull, a larger and much darker city. Stone Lewis is freshly out of prison and hiding away in a bedsit, nursing a grievance against the gangland leader who put him in prison and not too happy to face the world with his features marked by jailhouse tattoos. When he finds a battered Chinese Girl on his doorstep his life begins to change and he is drawn back into the violent world that he knows only too well. With such a backdrop it is refreshing to find that the cast of characters are human and humorous, noble, and so full of life that you feel they are in the room with you. It is not often that in this kind of novel you get character, wit, philospophy and tenderness as well as plot. Great read, darkly poetic, and so absorbing that I didn't even miss Sam Turner.
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