1/07/2013
High Degree of Atrocity: Gunshots Disrupt a Street Protest in Hong Kong and Unleash Tragedy on a Towering Scale. Review
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(More customer reviews)In a heart-thumping new novel High Degree Of Atrocity, ex-journalist Jay Scott Kanes becomes the first English-language author to deal candidly through fiction with Hong Kong's divisive political future.
Residents of Hong Kong simmer and fret, trapped between their yearnings for political freedom and the Beijing leadership's intolerance. High Degree Of Atrocity's plot emerges from real-life political turmoil. The fictional events reflect reality, albeit a worst-case scenario.
The book carries a poignant dedication to hundreds of millions of Asians too long denied the basic freedom of meaningful democracy.
Based on global values of freedom, this highly-entertaining Asian tale carries special meaning and a powerful impact.
An astute Asia-watcher, the first-time author Jay Scott Kanes crossed the Pacific in time to experience Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty and the aftermath.
During Hong Kong's difficult 1997 transformation from a British colony into a Chinese special administrative region, Kanes worked as an insider in Hong Kong's government sector.
The plot unfolds in the summer of 2009. Turbulent Hong Kong still lacks democracy while hobbled with a bungling government under close supervision from China's central leadership.
A mysterious man joins a street demonstration as part of a conspiracy to topple Wong Kai-king, Hong Kong's unpopular chief executive. As angry citizens march for democracy, two twitches on the trigger of a handgun leave a pair of important people sprawled lifeless on the sidewalk.
Those gunshots, amplified by three eventful days and the city's political quagmire, unleash the worst nightmare imaginable. Scowling PLA soldiers brandish weapons and strike fear on crowded streets. Spilled blood flows in crimson rivulets. Political fault-lines rumble all the way from Beijing to Washington.
Danger lurks behind every skyscraper. Amid the chaos, democracy campaigner Elsie Chan-Barrett and her husband Blair must struggle to survive while keeping alive an entire city's flickering hopes for a better future.
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