Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find his fortune in Hong Kong, but instead became homeless and hooked on crystal meth. Soon he began working for the 14K, Hong Kong's largest triad crime organization, as a doorman at a nightclub in the Wan Chai red-light district.

Dealing with violence, psychosis and the “foreign triad", a secretive expat clique that, unknown to the world, works closely with the Chinese mafia, he had to survive in an unforgiving city while addicted to the world's most dangerous drug.

Thrall's memoir, Eating Smoke, has become a popular pre-release book on Facebook with more than 13,000 fans. Learn more at Hong Kong bookshops.

Peter Spurrier
Publisher, Blacksmith Books (www.blacksmithbooks.com)
Hong Kong

(August 12, 2011)



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