|  | Vancouver, 
        Chinatown, 1936. While the bread lines get longer and the whole world 
        goes crazy, wise-cracking gumshoe Gene Castle has his own worries. In 
        Shanghai Alley, while on the trail of missing union funds, he goes 
        fist to fist with corrupt cops, sleazy politicians and ruthless gangsters. Jim Christy is a writer, 
        artist and tireless traveller. The author of twenty books, including poetry, 
        short stories, novels, travel and biography, Christy has been praised 
        by writers as diverse as Charles Bukowski and Sparkle Hayter. His travels 
        have taken him from the Yukon to the Amazon, Greenland to Cambodia. He 
        has covered wars and exhibited his art internationally. Raised in inner-city 
        Philadelphia, he moved to Toronto when he was twenty-three years old and 
        became a Canadian citizen at the first opportunity. A resident of British 
        Columbia’s Sunshine Coast for many years, he currently resides in 
        Toronto.
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