Macau - Daniel Carney

Set against the exotic backdrop of Hong Kong and Macau, one of the most frenetically exciting — and lawless — areas in the Orient, here is a novel comparable in spirit and sweep to James Clavell’s Tai-Pan and to "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

A quarter century ago in the teeming entrepôt of Macau, a shrewd and ruthless Dr. Sun was the kingpin of the Macau Syndicate, power-center for the network of smuggling and drug dealing in the Far East. When his mantle is passed to his beautiful, American-educated daughter, she confronts an array of forces that conspire to depose her, robbing her of her designated and rightful inheritance — including several tons of pure gold bullion.

Against this backdrop of treachery and corruption, his heir Crystal Lily casts her own web of brilliant deception to outwit her enemies, drawing on all the shrewdness of her father, her own remarkable resources as a woman, and the help of a legendary smuggler she brings back from exile to save her... and himself.

Macau is a rarity: a wonderful, well-told story of passion, action and color — a rich mix to pique and delight even the most jaded of palates, as well as to satisfy the most discriminating of readers.

DANIEL CARNEY is also the author of a previous novel, The Wild Geese. The son of a British foreign officer, he was born in the Far East and is intimately familiar with the settings of this novel.