First edition (1989). Dust jacket has some minor wear and tear and an old price sticker. Pages have yellowed, but still very readable. Strong binding, no pen or pencil marks, no dog ears. Looks like it has not been read much.
Reven Forrester is a British Chief Inspector of Police whose special task is to break the vicious Triad gangs who tyrannise Hong Kong. Communist rule will come soon, but still the refugees pour across the border from China. When eight-year-old refugee Kit Ling comes into his care, raped and helpless, Forrester sees in her the embodiment of all that is lovely and good. He wishes to protect her, but he has made a deadly enemy in Eddie Woo, and Kit Ling becomes the tragic victim of their feud.
Fired by anger and disgust, Reven Forrester plans a relentless and illegal campaign in pursuit of the rapist of Kit Ling. But Forrester’s vendetta is hindered by an ever deepening love for Woo’s beautiful sister Shen, who knows nothing of her brother’s darker side. Ah Fong, Forrester’s superstitious old amah, believes Shen and her brother to be two forms of a single spirit, set to void the life-essence from Only Son, Reven. To save him she must destroy the very woman he loves…
The action of this marvelously atmospheric novel moves from the idyllic British island of Lantau, just off the China coast, to Hong Kong itself, then to the Muslim island city of Jolo in the southern Philippines. Triad warfare, piracy, crime and corruption form the heart of a gripping story of revenge in the exotic island of the South China Sea. Previously known for adventure fiction, Peter Essex has taken a triumphant new direction. Candle in the Wind is not only an exciting and sinuous thriller, but also a powerfully affecting love story.
