Introduction: One of the reasons I set up this website was to gauge the reaction to my writing so as to assess the possibility of publishing another novel. I’ve gotten lots of feedback, mainly in relation to shorter articles but I guess these things take time, so I’ll persist. For now, here are some extracts from another novel I’ve written. It starts in Hong Kong, where I lived for a time in the 1990’s. Being a novel, it is of course fictional, but some of the characters are