I laud Andy Oakes's valiant effort to drag a realistic rendition of Shanghai and modern China onto the printed page and house it in a classic "noir" binding. A *bow* for his ambition. Yet what begins, as others have noted, with a promising scene of eight chained cadavers pulled from a river vani...
A glass eye, grey-blue, to his natural eye that was the colour of day old black coffee. A mesmerisingly schizophrenic effect, making you feel that you were talking to two people at the same time. “Information?” Yaobang sitting. The Reeb beer in front of the sailor, as blond-headed as an American ...