New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986). Hardcover first edition - The very highly praised and first "successful" novel by this poet and editor who spent much of his youth in Hong Kong. "Joe Sandingham, a down-and-out ex-British Lieutenant living in a seedy Hong Kong hotel, struggles to maintain hope and trust and obliterate from his memory the horrors of his years in a Japanese prison camp." Known derisively as Hiroshima Joe, he is in reality a heroic figure, who despite the horrors he witnessed remains compassionate and with the courage to survive. 441 pp. ISBN: 0-871130564.

New York & London: Penguin, (1982.). Mystery set in Hong Kong, featuring Chief Harry Feiffer. A very different police procedural. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0061371.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Hong Kong, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer. A very different police procedural. The murderer strikes silently and apparently randomly - from a shoe shine man to a British officer - with only one thing is common: each is found with a torn cholera vaccination certificate. SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-030705274.