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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (97421)	8/31/2002 5:31:36 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

To All, Book Review, "The Master of Rain," by Tom Bradby. I usually prefer action thrillers for my fiction reading, and this one is a bit deeper and slower than my usual fare. Still, I'm glad I read it. Set in 1925 Shanghai, it is about an English detective with ethics and naivete. Who happens to fall in love with a Russian woman who may or may not be a prostitute, but who definitely lived next door to a Russian prostitute who was murdered. The book is loaded with atmosphere from those days. Communists trying to organize workers being opposed by The Green Gangsters and the Chinese and Western rulers of the city. The murder of a Russian girl doesn't matter much to anyone but our hero, Richard Field. The characters are outstanding. A former Chicago cop who knew Al Capone, Scottish and Irish top cops who divide the police force between them, a peg-legged Municipal Secretary, who happens to be Field's uncle, the uncle's really funnnn wife who will jump anything that doesn't move quickly, a sadistic playboy Taipan of the biggest co. in Shanghai, and, the bloodthirsty leader of The Green Gang. Field succeeds in getting on the wrong side of all of them. Sort of a combination of early John Fowles, James Clavell, and Graham Greene. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, though there were times when I wanted to slap Field and say "wise up!" <g>