Damaged Cargoes, by David Turri
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Damaged Cargoes, by David Turri
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The story unfolds during the summer and autumn of 1870. It begins on the China coast. The protagonist, Thaddeus Galt, a mission priest, discovers, in the hold of a junk stranded on a sandbar, the bodies of thirty Japanese children, drowned in a storm. The children originated in the port of Kobe. Galt goes to Kobe to find those responsible for this terrible crime, and the reader is drawn into the sinister world of child trafficking, opium and violence. This is the world of The Kobe Foreign Concession, a bustling town built by western merchants who are hungry for Profit. But there is no profit for them in Kobe because their business is being strangled by the Meiji bureaucrats and the Japanese Customhouse. To make their Profit, those merchants become pawns of K’ung, a powerful Chinese Boss. They buy homeless children who are kidnapped from the slums of Osaka and they send this human cargo to K’ung’s brothels in The Shanghai Foreign Concession. The merchants are also involved in the trade of opium within The Concession. The children go out of Kobe, into misery. Opium comes into Kobe, creating misery. This is a world where the wealthy and the corrupt make the rules. Galt enters it, in the hot summer of 1870, on a mission to find justice for the dead children and to fight the evil that controls it. His mission is urgent because already the merchants are bringing another shipment of children to Kobe. In a few days, they will be on their way to Shanghai.
Damaged Cargoes, by David Turri- Amazon Sales Rank: #6098710 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-17
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .62" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mystery and Intrigue By Ian Box Damaged Cargoes is a wonderful story set in 1870's Japan and China. The reader is drawn into the story from the first page - taken into the sinister world of child trafficking and drugs. A world where the wealthy and the corrupt make the rules and those who refuse to follow are dealt with. The protagonist, Father Thaddeus Galt, is on a quest to fight the evil that controls all.The story is, indeed, a excellent read; full of action and intrigue. The story is paced well and the descriptions truly place the reader right in the 1870's. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a story that plays with your imagination and keeps you turning the pages.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Turri: A True Storyteller By kevin murphy David Turri’s first published novel, Damaged Cargoes seems to emanate from a dark recess of nineteenth-century Japan. The story takes place in the enclave inhabited by foreigners in Kobe. Turri’s impeccable eye for the details of treaty port life—the phaetons in which the merchants rode, the long bars where they drank with their consular protectors, the bund where they walked, the appearance of their warehouses—give his story the kind of texture that reminds the reader of Michener.But it is the way he brings his characters to life that makes the book truly appealing. In the dark, seedy world of the Kobe treaty port, Turri’s characters come alive as they speak. His gift for crisp dialog illuminates the contours of their often tortured conflicts with each other and the outside world with extraordinary texture; the reader feels like a privileged eavesdropper as they reveal their attitudes toward native Japanese and the peculiar pecking order of a society straining to replicate the class hierarchies of the contemporary West.This world is where his themes gestate--redemption’s possibilities, the consequences of greed, the ambivalence of human motivation, all at the complex intersection of Japanese and Western culture. At the end of the book, one cannot help but wonder if these men’s moral corruption is due to their lawless environment or if, a darker possibility, each carries with him a spark of evil, waiting to be fanned.Turri is no mere writer-explainer; this first novel establishes him as a new and compelling voice, a true storyteller. He has given us a marvelous tale, we hope the first of many.
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