Beijing Payback, Daniel Nieh
Beijing Payback, Daniel Nieh
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Beijing Payback
A Novel

Author: Daniel Nieh

Narrator: Ewan Chung

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 07/23/2019

Synopsis

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller, bursting with personality and pathos

Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years.Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.

About Daniel Nieh

Daniel Nieh is a writer and translator. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and has also lived in China, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. He studied Chinese Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.Daniel is the author of two novels, Beijing Payback and Take No Names, of which both were Editor's Choice selections in the New York Times Book Review. Daniel's translation clients include publishers, universities, nonprofits, and museums around the world. He served as an interpreter at 2008 Beijing Olympics and also works as a contract linguist for the US Department of State. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Esquire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

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Goodreads review by Daniel

I wrote this book. It's my first book ever. I wanted to write something fun and exciting, a hard-to-put-down book with that "joy of reading" feeling. I tried to include elements of the stories I loved in various subgenres: coming-of-age, murder mystery, immigrant novel, and revenge thriller. That ki......more

Goodreads review by Skip

Victor Li is a typical Southern California Chinese-American college student, who is into basketball and physical/mental fitness. His father has been murdered, and he and his sister are wondering about their future, when their father's Beijing protégée (Sun) shows up and turns their world upside down......more

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