Having enjoyed other books by this writer, I was looking forward to this one
which has sino-italian rivalry in the San Francisco dock area as its theme.
However, I was disappointed. Possibly the use of a leading character who is
related to the events but has a shadowy past and is working for an unnamed
US Government agency apparently added a dimension which offset the more
solid grounding that Stansberry's earlier novels provided. Not a bad read but
not one which makes me too eager to read a second book featuring the same
'hero'.