The Code-Cracker and the Tai-Chi Dancer
Published on 13. June 2018
330 pages
978-1-5144-6685-8 (ISBN)
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It is 1960s Singapore and a time of turbulence: political argument in Malaya, invasion threats from Indonesia, and the Cold War is spreading through Southeast Asia. Sarah is a clever young officer sent to monitor the radio waves and provide military intelligence for the British. Pearl is the young Chinese woman teaching tai chi classes. Caught between them is Harry, the planter's son turned investigative journalist. But Pearl is not all she seems, Sarah is unearthing a cesspool of dealings, and Harry hardly knows which way to turn to avoid his family ghosts. From the bustling young metropolis of Singapore to the humid muddy jungle of Borneo, a web of political intrigue, conflicting emotions, and taut mystery await.
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Alan Bollard
The Code-Cracker and the Tai-Chi Dancer
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06/2018
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Alan Bollard wrote this novel while he was living in Singapore, where his job has been running an international organisation by day, and novel-writing on planes, at airports and at night. He has written many works of non-fiction, produced an economics software game called Oikonomos, and helped to rebuild the MONIAC, the world's first economic computer running. In his earlier life he has been New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor and Secretary of the New Zealand Treasury.
