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Lanh, Andrew.
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Private investigators -- Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.
Gangs -- Fiction.
American Dream -- Fiction.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Fiction.
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Lanh, Andrew.
Private investigators -- Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.
Gangs -- Fiction.
American Dream -- Fiction.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Fiction.
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No good to cry /
Andrew
Lanh
.
by
Lanh
,
Andrew
.
Poisoned Pen Press, c2016.
Call #:
FICTION LAN
Subjects
Private investigators -- Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans -- Fiction.
Gangs -- Fiction.
American Dream -- Fiction.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Fiction.
Series
Lanh
,
Andrew
.
Rick
Van
Lam
mysteries
; 3.
ISBN:
9781464206412 (trade pbk.)
1464206414 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
288 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"On a sunny afternoon in Hartford, Connecticut, PI
Rick
Van
Lam
's Vietnam-vet mentor and partner, Jimmy, and Jimmy's old army pal, Ralph, are attacked as they walk down a city sidewalk. Ralph is killed, and Jimmy, backing up, is struck by a car. While the battered Jimmy is under the care of
Rick
's landlord and friend, Gracie, where an improbable romance seems to be blooming,
Rick
finds himself in a quandary - he's asked to clear the name of the two attackers named by the police. One is a boy named Simon Tran, known as Saigon, the other, Simon's buddy, Frankie Croix.
Rick
himself is a bui doi or child of dust, meaning the child of a Vietnamese mother and an American GI father. Leading a life of disdain and torment in a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage as a child, a battered
Rick
turned on a newly arrived child of dust, a more despised case: a boy who was the son of a Vietnamese mother and a black GI. He's still ashamed of how savagely pleased he was to have another boy become the new target for mistreatment, someone the Vietnamese community viewed as even lower than him. Years later, in Hartford,
Rick
has to grapple with that troubling childhood memory because Simon is the son of the same bui doi, Mike Tran. Mike is a hard-working, decent man. Despite the difficulties of being Amerasian, he embodies the American Dream: a house, a loving wife, and exemplary children - students at prestigious private schools and colleges. Except for Simon, who seems hell-bent on a life of crime. Working with Hank Nguyen, a young colleague now a state-cop-in-training,
Rick
tracks Simon to a Vietnamese gang in Little Saigon. How can he not strive to save Simon and Frankie, boys who refuse to be saved? And who may be facing not just murder charges but becoming victims in a vicious gangland war?"--From publisher.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.
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Adult Mystery Fiction
FICTION LAN
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