Creative Truths in Provincial Policing e-bog

It doesn t take much to tip the world into chaos. You don t even have to mean to do it. You might be an honest family man; a police chief in a small town in Central Vietnam, say, with no desire whatsoever to unleash catastrophe. A man such as Chief Duong, with simple dreams of domestic happiness and future immortality by means of a small statue on a roundabout. But the problem with dreams is it s often hard to look ahead. To see that borrowing money for your daughter s marriage to a local bigwig will lead to the kidnap of a footballer from Scunthorpe, the downfall of a global soft drinks empire, incidents of attempted matricide, public murder, re-arranged marriage, hypnotic malpractice, and one unfortunate act of geriatric perversion. And that s not to mention what happens to the town s monkeys.Because every action has a consequence. And were she asked Mrs Duong could consult her astrological charts and tell her husband exactly that. But it s not just the chief who needs telling. There s roving British blogger, J C Bone, with an illegal marriage contract on his hands, and Global Human Resource Manager, Sherry-Sioux with a celebrity surveillance programme to keep under wraps. There s a chief superintendent with lucrative investment plans and a physician with trail-blazing psychological ambitions. And then there s Chief Duong s freedom-fighting children. You see the biggest problem with chaos is that once it s unleashed, everyone s involved. And once everyone s involved, how on earth is one little police chief ever going to put things right?