Dragonfish
Vu Tran
New York Times Notable Book 2015
Vu Tran has written a thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor trust themselves. This remarkable debut is a noir page-turner resonant with the lasting reverberations of lives lost and lives remade a generation ago.
Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who is blackmailing Robert into finding her for him.
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As Robert starts illuminating the dark corners of Suzy's life, the legacy of her sins threatens to immolate them all.
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Daily Mail
An elegantly-written, elegiac novel about trust and the impossibility of ever truly knowing another person
Marsali Taylor
Promoting Crime Fiction
A writer tries to remember the central drama of his life
Vu Tran
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