Buenos Aires Triad

 Buenos Aires Triad, F E Beyer, National Library of New Zealand, 2021

 

Set in present-day Argentina, Lucas is an ordinary watch-seller. He moonlights for one of the Chinese criminal gangs operating in the capital. This particular gang is responsible for a brazen daylight robbery that left a British tourist dead. Such an attack can be bad for "business." The Argentine President orders the police to find those responsible, at all costs.

Lucas wants out of the gang; easier said than done. His "job" is to collect extortion money from Chinese-owned supermarkets, and throw Molotov cocktails at those who refuse to pay. Then the police arrest Boss Ping, the overall leader of the Chinese triads, at home. Can Lucas stay out of prison? Can Lucas stay away from an anonymous bullet in the back of the head, because someone thinks he may "talk?"

This is a very entertaining story. The author does a fine job of putting the reader right in the middle of Buenos Aires. I hope there is a Part 2 coming soon.