Kowloon Tong - Paul Theroux

I was in Hong Kong just before the 1996 Handover, but I spent most of my time carousing with other poms passing through, so I was interested in this depiction of a very different gwailo community; the leftovers of Empire that have been there for 50 years. The depiction of the weird culture is convincing, but the book shifts into an unconvincing sub-Greene thriller plot halfway through and loses both credibility and interest.