Macau

by Daniel Carney

Book Overview

Fictional Novel, Adventure, Mystery This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917657101
• ISBN13: 9780917657108
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Spielberg and Lucas should have read this book

Macau's major protagonist is Nicolai the Russian, the Snake Boat Man, an uncatchable gold smuggler coming out of long retirement to make one last desperate high-speed run across the South China Sea for the Syndicate's beautiful heiress. And what a glorious run it is! Han Solo, meet Indiana Jones - with a cast of other fascinating characters contributing to the story. First read this book many years ago and found I could no more forget it than I could forget Indie or Han, even if the story was melodramatic. Finally had to find it online, used, and buy it because I couldn't stand the itch of wondering if it was really as exciting as I remembered. It was, and I'm tickled to own it. The book is a summer movie in print, and would have been a box office smash in the right hands.

Very great piece of Literature

Macau is the portugese island off Hong Kong and in this book it is run by a Syndicate which is not so much feared anymore with the new leader. It is based around a final run of gold to Hong Kong to pay off a debt and hard to explain. But it all comes together in the end. Though not appropiate for kids due to sexual explicit material it is a good read.