City on Fire: A Novel of Hong Kong by Simon Elegant
Well narrated by Mike Chamberlain
Pegasus Crime, 2026; Bookshop.org⩘ ; audiobook: Dreamscape Media, 2026; Libro.fm⩘ .
Full review: City on Fire: A Novel of Hong Kong by Simon Elegant⩘
Character list
- Superintendent Killian Riordan Tong, aka Killian Conor Bogong or Ah Gong, gweilo (white person), heunggong jai (made in Hong Kong), under inquiry for shooting a young boy, Shek Ga Keong, at a protest
- Tsim Bei Tsui station, a rural coastal station where Killian lives while he is under inquiry
- Jun, full name, Tong Bojun, also known as Siobhan Riordan, Killian's daughter, frequently joins protests
- Gau, Killian's dog
- Senior Superintendent Pang, Crime NOIC
- Chief Inspector Choi of Tin Shui Wai station, aka Blue, young and relatively inexperienced, but senior CID on site
- Chief Inspector Lin and Inspector Yeong, CID investigators, subordinate to Choi
- Chan Wai Lik, chief forensics officer
- Hanson Poon, chief pathologist at Victoria mortuary
- Eddie Tsang, deputy commissioner for operations. Number two in the Force and probably the next commissioner of police, was Killian's father's deputy, when Killian was a kid, he had called him Uncle Eddie
- Kelvin, Jun's friend
- Wellington 2020, protest leader
- Senior Superintendent Weng, head of CID
- Kwok Lai Meng, founder of the Special Tactical Squad (STS)
- Raptors, the name the STS squad calls themselves
- Alex Tse Wai Mun, senior superintendent and head of Tin Shui Wai district
- Ngam Man Lik, aka Zen, Technical Services Group
- Tsinyi Ngai, suspect arrested in landfill case by STS led by Kwok
- Deacon Chiu Lok Mun, family in China, retired from a parish in the Philippines, matches photo of corpse in dump
Full review: City on Fire: A Novel of Hong Kong by Simon Elegant⩘

