AustLit

"It has its opening chapters in Hong Kong and Macao, and midway shifts for the remainder of the tale to Australia. The principal figure is a girl, who, living gaily the life on the China coast among the foreign residents, and amidst the colourful setting of the Far East, is left badly off by the death there of her father, and having in a careless moment become involved in a little smuggling adventure between Macao and Hong Kong unwillingly embarks on another in which opium and jade are landed at Brisbane by a ruse, and the characters come on to Sydney. Left behind is a young official of the Customs at Hong Kong who has, owing to his interest in the girl, become inculpated, and on the boat on the way to Sydney is a Frenchman who has deserted from the army in Indo-China. Between the two men, the smuggling, and the police investigations is a story of a girl's love and adventures which is carried on with an easily running pen, the interest being closely sustained from chapter to chapter."

- The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October 1933, p5