![]() ![]() Nice Guy will get his comeuppance in his personal life. What energizes him as a fictional creation is the voice Young has given him: hip and effervescent. His smooth ascent distinguishes him from the conventional racketeer who must claw his blood-soaked way to the top. In 1945, Zhang retires, and 21-year-old Pao becomes the new lord of Chinatown. He takes to Jamaican street culture like a duck to water, acquiring his own loyal lieutenants, black kids useful as muscle he cuts his first deal, distributing navy surplus, with a corrupt U.S. ![]() Zhang shakes down the Chinatown merchants Pao becomes his apprentice. His father has been killed by European soldiers dismembering China, but in Jamaica he finds a surrogate father in Zhang, his father’s best friend. Pao is just a kid when he arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1938. Against a backdrop of Jamaican history, a likable Chinese-Jamaican runs rackets in this eye-opening, rambunctious debut. ![]()
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