What do you do when it's the swinging '60s and you've got the job as a reporter and the car, a Sunbeam Alpine, but lost the love? Hugh Lunn went to Hong Kong with his Wimbledon tennis-playing mate Ken Fletcher, who knew all about gambling and women.
In Hong Kong Hugh falls in love all over again, with "JJJ"; meets the inimitable Steve Dunleave, king of US tabloid television, in his days as a Hong Kong nightclub bouncer; dallies in the Hong Kong tennis scene; then heads for even more exotic terrain.
It is the eve of the infamous Cultural Revolution when the young Australian journalist blunders into Red China, armed only with Banjo Paterson's ballads and an artificial sheepskin coat. Leaving behind the neon-tinted nightlife of Hong Kong, Hugh Lunn learns that life is not all cricket and cheongsams.
A masterpiece of exotic locales and laconic charm.
