Chasing the Dragon

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 31/03/2024 - 5:40pm by Karen

The image of the book cover for Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman includes the tagline ' A Betancourt Mystery '. The image has a dark background with a bright red smokey looking cloud taking up most of the area, with a view of a bay with a lot of small boats moored on it at the bottom and the hint of a dark dragon's face in the centre, the title is superimposed over that in gold italic lettering. Directly below that is a golden long dragon.

Detective Inspector Betancourt of the Singapore Marine Police is first on the scene. Something doesn't quite add up. He finds out that the archaeologist, Richard Fulbright, was close to deciphering the previously-untranslatable script on a pre-colonial relic known as the Singapore Stone....Read more