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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, 14 of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair.

In his most dangerous and personal case yet, Denver homicide detective, Nick Teffinger, promises a mysterious young woman from Hong Kong that he will not let anyone murder her.

Kong Salomons sværd' foregår i dag i nutidens Palæstina, i Israel og på Vestbredden. Kvinder aborterer, børn bliver født med alvorlige misdannelser, småbørn dør af uforklarlige årsager, gamle dehydrerer og sygner hen. Værst går det ud over de fanatiske religiøse bosættere i de besatte områder. Er det Guds straf, sygdom, terror? Zew Weissmann, agent i Shin Bet, en af Israels hemmelige sikkerhedsstyrker, går under jorden med falsk palæstinensisk identitet. Rejsen går til Gaza og Egypten.

Triads and Turbulence: Once Upon a Time in Northeastern China is an epic tale of conflict, royalties, and love set against the backdrop of an industrial wasteland populated by gangsters and outlaws in Northeastern China. This highly acclaimed novel is a tetralogy inspired by true events, from bloody gangster conflicts to industrial city outcasts, amid Communist China’s rapid development following Deng Xiao Ping’s economic reforms in the 1980s. It is also a story of marginalized individuals entangled in the changing fabrics of the society they live in.