You just have to hang on for the ride as the characters strive to find their way through confusing and threatening situations and deal with nasty villains and alien bureaucracy.  Well written, gripping, a brilliant dance of very different cultures. Rural England and gritty crime through the eyes of desperate men in a new and very strange land. This is a Thriller  that  reads like some of the best science fiction, rather like what you might get if Neal Gaiman or William Gibson wrote a contemporary crime thriller.  Tough Chinese Police Inspector Jian speaks no English but has rushed to England to help his Daughter who is in trouble and finds that she is missing and has been lying to him about her life in England. Ding Ming and his wife have  been smuggled into England by human traffickers in hope of finding work and prosperity in the "Gold Mountain". Things go really bad really fast, Ding Ming is separated from his wife by the "Snakeheads" he tries to deal with unexpected situations and demands from the smugglers in order to be allowed to speak with his wife.  Both these men struggle to find their way in an alien culture without any guidelines. You see events through the eyes and minds of these two men.