My novel, Jade City, is a gangster family saga that I’ve been calling “the Godfather with magic and kung fu,” and that author Ken Liu describes as “epic drama reminiscent of the best Hong Kong gangster films.” On the island of Kekon, magical jade is controlled by clans that bear resemblance in different ways to Triads, Yakuza, and Mafia organizations in our own world. All well-designed magical worlds have norms and rules…as well as characters who would break them. Sometimes we’re hoping for the cop, the detective, or the private investigator to hunt down that rogue necromancer sometimes we’re rooting for the clever thief to pull off that daring airship heist. Let’s face it: we love crime stories, and this holds just as true in the genre of fantasy fiction as it does in contemporary thrillers, mysteries, and non-fiction.
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