Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn't concern them - until the mysterious Mr. Hung from
Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to
“Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.”—Stephen King “Theroux’s prose is suitably silky in its insinuations and vicious in its ability to claw.&rdqu