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      Snakes Can't Run

      by Ed Lin
      Published
      Apr 2010
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      336
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      Robert Chow Book 1

      About This Book

      An epic of New York Chinatown noir in the vein of George Pelecanos and Richard Price, this is the riveting sequel to the highly acclaimedThis Is a Bust

      It's a hot summer in New York's Chinatown in 1976 and Robert Chow, the Chinese-American detective son of an illegal immigrant, takes on a new breed of ruthless human smugglers— snakeheads—when two bodies of smuggled Chinese are found dead under the Brooklyn Bridge underpass. But as Robert comes closer to finding some answers, he discovers a dark secret in his own family's past…

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      Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Law Enforcement Police Procedural

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