China White

by Tony Kenrick

Charles Bendroit, London's premier shipping magnate and an extravagant playboy, plans to make a fifty million dollar profit from six hundred kilos of uncut heroin, but an Atlanta detective investigating another crime is on Bendroit's trail

296 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Before becoming a full-time writer Tony Kenrick worked as an advertising copywriter in Sydney, Toronto, NYC, San Francisco, and London, 1953-72. On the dust jackets of many of his novels Kenrick claimed the following: "I hated being a lumberjack; those shirts itch something awful. And I was a failure as a boxer, too. I was what's known in the fight game as a crier; whenever I got hit, I'd burst into tears. They'd work on me feverishly between rounds, but they could never stanch the flow. "

Kenrick was never a logger nor a prize-fighter; this is a typical example of his humor, and very typical of the humor found in his books.

Between 1971 - 1996 he wrote seventeen novels.

Reviews

[Rafał Roman Małek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite short, but decent read