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07/02/19
IT’S THE YEAR OF THE DOG IN CHINATOWN.
Of course, my book wasn’t written about 2018. I take my readers way back to the sixties but, even then, a dog’s most defining characteristic was loyalty. You’ll find none of that in “Be Dead and Be Damned,” as most of the characters would kill you after they’ve kissed you; the art of the double-cross is grist for the mill for crime novelists.
Would you accept a gratuitous brandy cleanser from a Chinaman with a dubious reputation? Certainly not, if you are Homicide’s most senior investigator. Of course, if the tipple was over twenty years of age, there might be cause for consideration.
I’m so excited that I could include some wonton wonders in my latest novel, because it has been so long since Dr. Fu Manchu stories filled our library shelves, and I know the Little Bourke St. Community are up for it. If I could have found some more page time for Harry Chang, I would have considered writing the whole damn thing in Mandarin. Nevertheless, the fellow is an able foil for the law and his most irritating competitors: Leon Viper and his son, Sammy the Snake.
I know my readers like a little passion with their fruit in the morning and, in keeping with current rainbow trends, I have therefore included switch-hitters from both sides of the personality paradigm to evocatively stir your emotions. There’s been nothing like it since Elvis sat on Liberace’s knee during a fund-raising telethon.
Would you accept a gratuitous brandy cleanser from a Chinaman with a dubious reputation? Certainly not, if you are Homicide’s most senior investigator. Of course, if the tipple was over twenty years of age, there might be cause for consideration.
I’m so excited that I could include some wonton wonders in my latest novel, because it has been so long since Dr. Fu Manchu stories filled our library shelves, and I know the Little Bourke St. Community are up for it. If I could have found some more page time for Harry Chang, I would have considered writing the whole damn thing in Mandarin. Nevertheless, the fellow is an able foil for the law and his most irritating competitors: Leon Viper and his son, Sammy the Snake.
I know my readers like a little passion with their fruit in the morning and, in keeping with current rainbow trends, I have therefore included switch-hitters from both sides of the personality paradigm to evocatively stir your emotions. There’s been nothing like it since Elvis sat on Liberace’s knee during a fund-raising telethon.
Written by:
Gerry Burke
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