The Dead Can't Make a Living (A Taipei Night Market Novel)

ISBN: 1641297247

Author: Lin, Ed

Condition: New

A unique blend of tension, charm, tragedy, and optimism, with characters youll love and a setting so real youll think youve been there. Highly recommended.-Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher seriesEd Lin's big-hearted, eye-opening fifth installment in the fan-favorite Taipei Night Market seriesJing-nan, the owner of the most popular food stand in Taipeis world-famous Shilin night market, is hauling trash after a successful evening of hawking Taiwanese delicacies to tourists when he finds a corpse propped up against the dumpsters. The dead man turns out to be Juan Ramos, a Philippine national who came to Taiwan for a job at a massive ZHD food processing plant.Jing-nan is haunted by Ramoss story, and by the heartbreak of his family, who arrive in Taipei looking for answers. ZHD has a history of safety violations, and activists have a hunch Ramoss death might be part of a cover-up. Meanwhile, Jingnans gangster uncle, Big Eye, has his own mysterious, probably illegal, reasons for being concerned about whats going on in ZHD. He pressures Jing-nan into a daring and risky mission: going undercover as a migrant laborer to get a job at the food processing plant and reporting back about the conditions inside. Jing-nan hopes to find out the truth for the Ramos family, and to save other immigrant lives-but first he has to survive the spy operation.This rollicking crime novel is a scorching, timely examination of our global dependence on undocumented immigrants.