The Far Side of the Night (Paperback)

Reviews

"My review" by Breakaway R. - 3 July 2019

Interesting story about corruption in China Paul and Christine are on a trip to China from their home in Hong Kong. On a day out with their 4-year-old son David, they encounter a high ranking official and his girlfriend. The girlfriend decides that she wants to kidnap David and Party Chairman Chen Jian Guo accustomed to having everything he wants both for himself and his girlfriend tries to take him. The only safe place for Paul and Christine to go is the British Embassy in Beijing but they are 2000 miles away. Such is the influence of the Party Chairman that he can command everyone to search for the little boy as well as putting surveillance on every major road, railway and airport. Paul and Christine embark on a perilous journey not knowing who they can trust and how they are going to survive. The book is about their journey aided and abetted by various people who may or may not be trustworthy. I did not realise that this was the third book in a series about Paul and Christine’s life so it is a compliment to the author that this story is able to be read on its own. The original book was also written in German and I think that due to this the language is sometimes quite simplified and not particularly descriptive. However, it was an entertaining story and the main topic of interest for me relates to the complete corruption that is obviously still existing in modern day China. The idea that a little boy could be taken away forcibly from his parents just on the whim of the girlfriend of an important Party Official is quite horrendous but is almost taken for granted by everyone connected with this and gave me some food for thought. Dexter Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review