AustLit

'In Patrick Holland’s new literary thriller, an unnamed narrator drifts through the glittering non-places of Asian modernity – chain hotels, airports, megacities – brokering million-dollar trade deals and engaging reluctantly in light espionage. At night, he checks into hotel rooms in interchangeable cities, and pursues “chance liaisons” with exotic, unknowable women, before courting oblivion with whisky and opium.' (Introduction)