J.I. Jung
Death Avenue
The City Never Sleeps
Death Avenue is the first book in a series of historical thrillers, The City Never Sleeps, and is set in New York City during the Jazz Age. The novel and the series centers around Eddie Rum, a mixed-race Chinese American who is passing for white while America is under the law of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Death Avenue
October. 1919. Eddie Rum returns to New York City from the Great War in Europe. As he struggles to make a living, Eddie discovers the body of a dead Chinese man on the train tracks that run through 10th Avenue. The search for the dead man’s identity takes Eddie into his own past and across the city that never sleeps.​
"A deeply intriguing novel, emotionally powerful and unburdened by cheap sentimentality." – Kirkus Reviews
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