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...dawn, Raviv brushes the outpost's floor to remove cigarette butts, spent machine-gun cartridges and the dirt that has blown in through the rifle slits. Not far away, Najjar will be raking out his tent after another night. In Rafah they sweep up the intifadeh's filth and wait for more grime to fall on them...
...neighborly enclave that has redirected its children from distant sleepover camps to their own backyards. Each day this summer most Heather Hill kids will take just a few hours of community recreational programs. That will leave plenty of time for the neighborhood's traditional yard-to-yard water-gun battles...
Keigo Oyamada remembers well his first encounter with rock 'n' roll. He was in the fifth grade and an older cousin played him some Love Gun-era Kiss. "I liked them right off," says Oyamada, 33. "They all looked like manga monsters to me." That initiation into the concept of rock 'n' roll as fantasy would be the germination of Oyamada's own career. (He acquired his musical pseudonym, Cornelius, from the name of a friendly simian in the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would...
...Fresh out of police-force training, Field is soon packing a gun and living the thrilling life he left England to find. Field initially sweats through the Shanghai summer conspicuously out of place in his dead father's Sunday best ("meant to be worn in a Yorkshire winter, not in the stifling heat of the Far East"). Before long?with the help of an uncle in high places?he's in a tailor-made, lightweight suit, sipping his first glass of champagne and taking in his first burlesque show...
...Bradby adroitly brings us right where we want to be: alongside a gun-toting twentysomething sidling up to the Shanghai Club's Long Bar. Clipped and believable, the dialogue is thankfully not laden with clichEd detective slang. And Bradby doesn't bore us by showing off all that historical research. Instead, he weaves together a vivid portrait of the times and a ripping good crime tale as he slowly unravels the characters' hidden secrets (and they all have them). As Field's ribald aunt puts it: "Everyone expects Shanghai to be decadent so we like to give the impression...