WHEN THE TYPHOON STRIKES
“Typhoon season. A crazy time to visit.
The air would be as thick as soup, the humidity overpowering. Even as the Cathay Pacific Jumbo banked over
the South China Sea for the approach, Clive wasn’t sure why he was returning.
Perspiration trickled down his neck, as though in anticipation of the heat that would greet him. But this was a cold sweat. So m any years. Would he know anybody? Would anybody know him?
His stomach was tying itself into a knot. He tried to kid himself that it was excitement. But he knew it was something else, a sense of unease. Should he really be returning to Hong Kong? Up to now he had tried to push the real reason to the back of his mind. What a charade! Why did he fool himself?”
After years away Clive Spillman is returning to Hong Kong. Memories flood back — and unanswered questions. In Typhoon Season, you’ll find yourself on a roller-coaster ride as Spillman battles Triad gangsters, crooked policemen, sophisticated socialites with secrets to hide, a kung-fu film star with lethal fists. When he asks too many questions he ends up running for his life.
A body floating in the South China Sea, a missing heroin stash, a doomed love affair, corruption in high places…David Baird’s latest novel has all the ingredients to make it a best-seller. Baird vividly captures the atmosphere of the so-called Pearl of the Orient thanks to his years working in Hong Kong as a journalist — both when it was a British colony and later when it returned to Chinese rule.
Published by Maroma Press, Typhoon Season is a fast-paced thriller, now available as an ebook, ready to be downloaded to your Kindle, computer or other device.
“Typhoon Season is a tightly constructed thriller that moves along at a cracking pace,” reported the Sunday Morning Post (Hong Kong) reviewer.
A Times of London correspondent noted: “Thrilling novel…brilliantly evokes life in Hong Kong in the lead-up to the 1997 Handover to China.”
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The ebook edition of Typhoon Season is published by Smashwords. Find it at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/205789
This is David’s second work of fiction. His first, Don’t Miss The Fiesta!, is a chilling tale about a stranger who seeks the simple life in a Spanish village only to find himself embroiled in passionate intrigues.
In the words of one reviewer, it is “a vibrant account of the secret lives of so many real-life Spanish villages for long trapped between the hammer of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, and the anvil of cruel medieval religious obligations”.
