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Chasing the Dragon (Manga)
Jackie Pullinger
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Description for Chasing the Dragon (Manga)
Paperback. The incredible true story of a young British woman's struggle against the darkness of Hong Kong's Triads and drug dens - re-told for the first time as a cutting-edge Manga graphic novel Illustrator(s): Winarno, Toto. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98.
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke her message of love and hope, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a miraculous new treatment for drug addiction... ... Read more
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke her message of love and hope, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a miraculous new treatment for drug addiction... ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340954836
SKU
V9780340954836
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About Jackie Pullinger
Toto Winarno is an upcoming illustrator of Christian comics from Indonesia. Jackie Pullinger-To is a British woman who still lives and works among the poor, homeless and drug addicts of Hong Kong, in the ministry she began over thirty years ago.
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