Magnus MacLeod and the Devil’s Coin is a rollicking ride through Hong Kong’s underworld, pitting half-broken paranormal investigators against the city’s most rich and powerful.
Captain Joe Swale, recently returned from operational deployments, must try to divide the goblins in his mind from the unearthly creatures stalking him.
A popular Social Science book, based on the author’s own experiences, delivered in part through military doctrinal frameworks and self-awareness theories currently taught to the British Army.
Magnus Macleod and the Devil’s Coin:
We fell out onto the street, the stench of the Wanchai drains greeting us alongside entreaties from Filipinas in knee-high boots to come in and take a look. Blue-red neon came and went until we reached our sanctuary: the Junk, previously described to me by Magnus as ‘a small, cramped shitbox of a place, and utterly, utterly wonderful’. And sure enough I had found it to be an establishment where a man could say and do as he pleased and not be swindled out of his overdraught by a cunning mamasan or be driven to distraction by ladies-who-lunch.
A voice, thick with drink and rasping Glaswegian met us at the door. “Back are ye? Didn’t have quite enough last night?” Before either of us could reply the short, stocky man grabbed us. “What’ll it be?” He led us in and took his place behind the bar.
James Ashton: Author, Ghostwriter 