The Peking Badlands – Just One More Tale – The Gun for Hire

This week sees the publication in Hong Kong of the new smaller format edition of Midnight in Peking and a new batch of hard copies of my small follow up book The Badlands – just ready for Christmas!!

The Badlands is a collection of shorter stories about some of the real foreigners who lived, worked, stole, dealt, whored, danced and died in the Badlands of Peking in the 1930s. But I kept one story back. Now the South China Morning Post’s magazine has run that one last story from the Badlands – the story of the mysterious Pinfold, a man who came to escape in Peking and became a gun for hire in the Badlands.

Click here to read Broken in the Badlands – Gun for Hire