PRICE'S PRICE
by Chris Maden
Stanley Price’s ambition is to be an explorer. He joins the army and is posted to this vibrant, free-wheeling entrepot, a metropolis on the make. This officer, scoundrel and rake is seduced by the glamour, the sideways glances and the gung-ho spirit; the bribes, the beer and the brash integrity. His ambitions get swept to the side – until he meets a young lady: his nemesis or his redemption?
Spanning the glory years of Hong Kong, Price’s Price is a feisty and funny yet elegiac tale of a man who can do no right, and a city that won’t give him cause to.
“...reading Price's Price was an experience I find it difficult to describe beyond saying simply, it's good. It was very, very good."
"A love letter to Hong Kong, albeit an unusual one... that brings to mind the novels of Flashman, another oddly endearing rogue."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Maden stumbled into Hong Kong ten years to the day before its reversion to China and knew he'd arrived. He has spent his adult life in the town. He has been a bit-part bad-guy on local TV, has contributed to the Hong Kong Free Press and Hong Kong Review of Books, and was chair of the local writers' circle as this, his first novel, went to press. When not writing, he mentors start-ups (a polite locution for steering them away from the many mistakes he made), hikes, sails and goes on long lunches. He is happily married to a woman who loves, and who puts up with his nonsense - which is never in short supply.