The red pole of Macau
Subtitle: an Ava Lee novel
By: Ian Hamilton
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781250032317; 9781250043559; 9781250032324
Subjects: Gangsters; Fiction; Families; Brothers and sisters; Forensic accounting
Description: In Ian Hamilton's The Red Pole of Macau, family ties are stressed to the limit when intrepid forensic accountant Ava Lee must rescue her half brother, Michael, and his business partner, Simon, from a disastrous multimillion-dollar real-estate deal in Macau. When the developers turn out to be gangsters, Michael and Simon are threatened with bankruptcy and much worse. Ava struggles to salvage the deal and her family's money, but then Simon is kidnapped, and the rules of the game abruptly change.