Bad Traffic
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Sort of Books
Published:26th Jan '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Inspector Jian is a Chinese cop from the Siberian borders who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter brings him to the meanest streets he's ever faced - in rural England. Migrant worker Ding Ming is distressed - his gangmaster's making demands, he owes a lot of money to the snakeheads and no one will tell him where his wife has been taken. Maybe England isn't the `gold mountain' he was promised..... Two desperate men, uneasy allies in a baffling foreign land, are pitted against a band of ruthless criminals. There's BAD TRAFFIC ahead.
Inspired writing. Bad Traffic is a honey: suspense that never loses its grip. -- Elmore Leonard
Lewis's aim was to write a book that was 'fast-paced and pulpy with plenty of action'. He has certainly succeeded, but there's more besides - dark comedy, sensitive characterisation and an incisive rendering of the desperation felt by beleaguered strangers in a foreign land. -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *
An impressive novel set in a milieu hitherto unused in crime fiction. -- Marcel Berlins * Sunday Times *
- Short-listed for World Book Day: Spread the Word Book to Talk About 2009
ISBN: 9780954899554
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 32mm
Weight: 360g
372 pages
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