The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

by Lynn Stansbury

In-yong HanSolo to his friendsis a Korean-American cop detailed from San Francisco to American Samoa to advance his career, bring modern forensic methods to this remote South Pacific Territory, and keep peace between the Korean commericial fishermen and the Samoans. And he's failing spectacularly. His wife has left him, a white American doctor has just been murdered, and Han gets caught in a riot between the tuna boat Koreans and a Samoan mob. Picking up the pieces, he acquires an odd group of a demonic Samoan surgeon, an American woman expert on leprosy and avoiding emotional entanglements, and a Samoan aristocrat who may be a saint or a murderer. By the time it's all over, they all learn that the trappings of evil may be different in different cultures, but the central bits are very much the same.

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Rose Wood · Rating 2 out of 5]

For this to only have 260 pages it sure felt like a 1000 pages. The writing was confusing and way too much detail with not enough story line. I kept falling asleep with this one. The description of the American samoa Island was good but I am not sure if it would be a pleasant place to visit with all the cultural laws.