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Fortune Cookie by Brice Courtenay

Simon Koo is an ambitious young Australian, who showed a promising career in Rugby where he got the nick-name ‘fortune cookie’, before incurring a career ending injury. Then as an ambitious young advertising executive in the 1960’s, he moves to Singapore to work for Samuel Oswald Wing. He finds that the Wing brothers who run the agency are not what they seem. Simon finds himself in an environment which is strangely familiar while being profoundly different. It is a world where the rules that govern behaviour in business and in personal life differ widely from what he is used to. It is also a place where all is not what it appears to be.

Problems start for Simon when he falls in love with Mercy B Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother, who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage. With no family or connections, the beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influences of manipulative businesswoman Beatrice Fong. Fong is in league with the Wing brothers and lures Lord into the dark world of human trafficking and sex work.

Simon finds a world lies beneath the veneer of legitimate commerce. It is a world of people smuggling, drug trafficking and murder. Can he save Mercy from this world?

Bryce Courtney takes readers from 1800’s Australian goldfields to wartime comfort houses and CIA spy rings operating during the Vietnam War. It is a thrilling and captivating tale set in a dangerous, mysterious and terrifying world, with a love story at its heart.

RRP $80.00
Published and distributed by Penguin Group under the Viking title

 

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