Introduction
No living being is as bull-headed and steely nerved as a female competing in a male world, struggling to get out from behind the receptionist's switchboard and clacking typewriters to build a career for herself. Hazards raise their heads at every turn . . . and sometimes the threats are more serious than an offensive pinch on the buttocks or a salacious glint in the eye. That's precisely what Chad Barker, head of the Hong Kong Border Investigation had in mind when he tried to dissuade his baby-faced secretary from accepting the assignment as informer on the twenty-three-year-old Bu Manchu jade smuggling case.
The mysterious Orient with its infamous white slave trade and opium dens and smuggling, is a city where caution is a pass word . . . a place where anything can be bought for a price. Sometimes in flesh . . . Paying that price is where Shirlee Canan, our twenty-two year old heroine drew the line on her career.
Captive in Hong Kong is the final drama of these fragments woven together in a fast-paced adventure written by Edward Mitchell, a true master at interpreting the mental machinations of a female in distress.
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