On Java Road

After twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong-Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. But now the streets are choked with students demanding democratic freedoms, and the old world is beginning to fall apart. Adrian's old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of a wealthy Hong Kong family, has begun a reckless affair with Rebecca's ghost to Java Road, where the city's dead congrate, Adrian reassembles her final hours - as he struggles to distinguish between delusion and reality.