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  • Book cover of The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed
  • Book cover of The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed
  • Book cover of The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed
  • Book cover of The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed
  • Book cover of The Dead Can't Make a Living by Lin, Ed
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The Dead Can't Make a Living

by Lin, Ed

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Book Overview "A unique blend of tension, charm, tragedy, and optimism, with characters you'll love and a setting so real you'll think you've been ther...
"A unique blend of tension, charm, tragedy, and optimism, with characters you'll love and a setting so real you'll think you've been there. Highly recommended."--Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series

Ed Lin's big-hearted, eye-opening fifth installment in the fan-favorite Taipei Night Market series

Jing-nan, the owner of the most popular food stand in Taipei's world-famous Shilin night market, is hauling trash after a successful evening of hawking Taiwanese delicacies to tourists when he finds a corpse propped up against the dumpsters. The dead man turns out to be Juan Ramos, a Philippine national who came to Taiwan for a job at a massive ZHD food processing plant.

Jing-nan is haunted by Ramos's story, and by the heartbreak of his family, who arrive in Taipei looking for answers. ZHD has a history of safety violations, and activists have a hunch Ramos's death might be part of a cover-up. Meanwhile, Jingnan's gangster uncle, Big Eye, has his own mysterious, probably illegal, reasons for being concerned about what's going on in ZHD. He pressures Jing-nan into a daring and risky mission: going undercover as a migrant laborer to get a job at the food processing plant and reporting back about the conditions inside. Jing-nan hopes to find out the truth for the Ramos family, and to save other immigrant lives--but first he has to survive the spy operation.

This rollicking crime novel is a scorching, timely examination of our global dependence on undocumented immigrants.

Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 336 | Language: English | Publisher: SOHO PR INC | ISBN: 1641297247
FormatHardcover
Pages336
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1641297247
EAN9781641297240
PublisherSOHO PR INC
Publication Date2026-04-07
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.1 Pounds
Length8.3 Inches
Width5.5 Inches
Height1.3 Inches
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