Her Beautiful Monster by Adi Tantimedh

Author:Adi Tantimedh [Tantimedh, Adi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/Leopoldo & Co.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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From Olivia’s recordings:

“I contacted Golden Sentinels’ Hong Kong office to let them know I was in town. If anything were to happen to me, they would at least let Roger and Cheryl know. Everyone in Hong Kong was freaked out that Derek Hong Kam Fong had been snatched off the streets by the Chinese authorities. It was still headline news, and pro-democracy activists were protesting about China’s increasing erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong. Some of the chaps at Golden Sentinels’ Hong Kong office offered to help me out, but I had to turn them down because Golden Sentinels could not be seen to be working on this case. Besides, they weren’t getting paid. The other thing is, the office here is split between the boss, who just wants to keep his head down and keep getting big money clients, and the younger investigators, who want more democratic rights and representation in Hong Kong. I didn’t want to throw a match to those tensions.

“Derek’s office was not far from the red light district of Wan Chai. I went over and found that the office had been closed since Derek disappeared, so I tracked down his employees, who were all holed up at home. They told me the morning he disappeared, he never made it to the office. Derek didn’t take the car to work because traffic was bloody awful. He usually took the bus. Whoever grabbed him had to have observed his daily routine before they decided the best time and place to make their move. I didn’t have the names of any Mainland Chinese agents who could have been operating in Hong Kong, and they may not have used any. They could have used local talent, and that meant the Triads. The next step, then, would be to find out which gangs operated in Wan Chai, especially near Derek’s office. Wan Chai had seen its share of gang wars when I was a girl back in the nineties. I remember hearing about murders, police raids and skirmishes, but things had been fairly quiet in the last few years. The area is divided into different turfs overseen by branch gangs. I had to find out which ones had a deal with the Chinese authorities to keep the peace and gather information, particularly on Derek.

“Here was where I could use my family’s connections.”

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