Fortune Cookie

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Viking/penquin
Publisher Place: Camberwell
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 584 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is some shelf wear on edges. A Love Story Set Against The Trade In Drugs And Human Misery Operating During The Vietnam War.

Publishers Description: Its the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive - and its an exciting world to be part of. Simon Wong, a Chinese-Australian and promising young advertising executive, is sent to Singapore to establish an office. He finds himself thrust into an environment that is at once strangely familiar and profoundly different; one where the rules that govern behaviour - both in business and in personal life - differ wildly from what he is used to. And where all is not what it appears to be. Under the veneer of the commercial world lie some shocking truths - of people smuggling, drug trafficking and murder. And Mercy B. Lord, the woman Simon falls for, is caught up in it. From wartime Asian comfort houses to CIA spy rings, Bryce Courtenay takes us on a thrilling journey with a great love story at its heart: Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord, the illegitimate daughter of a Japanese officer and a Chinese mother who abandoned her on the doorstep of a Catholic orphanage. With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a manipulative businesswoman, who, in league with the Wing brothers, lures her into the dark and dangerous international trade in sex workers and heroin trafficking involving the American CIA. Simon, my unlikely hero, must save her at any cost. I do hope you enjoy Fortune Cookie a love story set against the wretched trade in drugs and human misery operating during the Vietnam War. Bryce Courtenay

ISBN: 9780670074082