MEET JOHN CROWN & CHANG PO
HONG KONG'S ACE CRIME-BUSTERS in
CROWN by TERRY HARKNETT

01: THE SWEET AND SOUR KILL

Hong Kong: Where East meets West in a boom of skyscrapers and shanty towns, of luxury hotels and sleazy waterfront bars. Where anything can be had for a price, from a pretty girl to a shipment of raw heroin.

When an American mob backed by Mafia money muscles in on the colony's lucrative rackets, offering their own special brand of "protection", they trespass on Crown's patch.

Big mistake.

Chief Superintendent John Crown isn't your usual policeman. Tough, bitter and ruthless, he believes that bullets speak louder than words. And he has a special dislike of trespassers.

THE SWEET AND SOUR KILL is the first in a crime series set in 1970's Hong Kong, written by the author who gave you EDGE, STEELE, APACHE and other exciting books: TERRY HARKNETT.

02: MACAO MAYHEM

Hong Kong - the international brokerage house for the exchange of secrets. Somebody was buying some big ones and selling them at a big profit. Then a girl nobody seemed to care about got killed. Somebody did care.

That person was Senior Superintendent John Crown of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. And when he took a hand, Chang Po, his Chinese partner, joined the action.

Macao - not part of Crown's Colony. But the blood and violent trail led there, so that's where Crown and Chang went. In the tracks of a girl who knew too much. Enough to make her another victim ... unless she traded her secrets for protection instead of money.

03: BAMBOO SHOOT-OUT

The Chinese People's Republic - Getting into this forbidden land isn't easy, unless you're invited. Chief Superintendent John Crown of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force had no invitation. Just the help of his partner, Chang Po, and an agent of British Intelligence.

The Assignment - Reach into the city of Canyon by any means available and at whatever cost, to meet a man. Why? Only Crown knew that, and he wasn't talking.

Red China - Never was the name more apt that when Crown and Chang penetrated the Bamboo Curtain. For the good earth was stained crimson with the blood of all who stood in their way. At any cost they had said, and the price was high.