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Free your ch'i! All hell's breaking loose in Shanghai. Amateur sleuth and feng shui master C. F. Wong and his over-enthusiastic assistant Joyce are setting up a new branch of the Union of Industrial Mystics when a group of vegan terrorists threatens to blow up the city and two visiting presidents. The oriental, occidental and accidental collide as Wong and Joyce try to save the city, the presidents and an explosive white elephant. A bestselling author throughout Asia, Vittachi's fast and furious satire always entertains.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
if you're expecting the poetry of eastern philosophical musings or, indeed, a serious novel by all means stay away. this is quite deliberately - and successfully - a highly comic novel weaving the wonderfully mismatched cf wong and american sidekick, joyce, into what feels like an eclectic, oriental caper movie. fun, fun, fun.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Readers who've found Alexander McCall Smith's work too cutesy will be better off with this light novel with a social conscience. Feng shui master CF Wong and his Australian assistant Joyce McQuinnie have moved from Singapore to Shanghai...only their new office is blown up. Traffic jams are abundant, and a bomb is discovered inside a live elephant. However, sometimes the author's humour appears at inappropriate moments: a major murder scene (recalling Robert Muchamore's MAN V BEAST) should've been harrowing for the reader, but it wasn't. Still, the author makes up for it with social commentary, when an American character says, 'How come every goddamn nation on this planet counts in kilos and we count in pounds? What's wrong with them all?' Of course it would make more sense for Americans to join in counting kilos, but do you think they'd see it? Not Thomas 'Cobb' Dooley!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Not to everyone's taste, I'm sure, but the educated palate will love this quirky take on the detective tale. An exploding elephant, a gridlocked city and vegan terrorists make for a spicy, moreish feast! Enjoy...
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Unfortunately, it isn't want it claims to be...
I'll be honest and admit that I bought this book largely because of the cover. However, as an avid reader of crime fiction and a lover of books set in China, the basic premise... Read more
Published on 25 July 2008 by Sarah Durston
alas!
What a disappointment. Waiting for such a long time to read about C.F Wong and noting that he had become a coward, greedy and interested only by his appetite. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2007 by E. Tistounet
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