The Shanghai gesture
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Gary Indiana.
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio; Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [New York]; Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780982015100
Subjects: Fu Manchu, Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Narcolepsy -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land's End, a funk endemic to the region since the wreckage a century earlier of the ship 'The Ardent Sodomite'. Meanwhile, Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort Dr. Obregon Petrie attempt to thwart Fu Manchu's latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American piyas, matching wits with a clubfooted ex-STASI, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies."