The Treasure of Nguyen Van Thieu - Softcover

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2126. The great killing spree ended a century ago. Oil is dead almost everywhere. The global internet is nothing but a pre-war memory. Nation-states have vanished. What remains is a tired world of 1.5 billion survivors who farm, patch, trade, and stay upright out of habit.In this world, one thing is worth more than gold: the silicon processor. Without it, no city can treat its water, regulate its electricity, or manufacture its medicine. Chip shipments are the only real currency. They are made in Chongqing, Bombay, and Tehran. They are transported by men like Liang.Liang is thirty-eight. A former Jiaolong commando turned courier for the Chongqing Triads after his old mentor called him home. He doesn't complain. He does the job because it's all he knows. He likes neighborhood mahjong, cheap cigarettes, lukewarm beer, and Zhou - the woman who runs the brothel where he drops his bag between missions.This job looks simple on paper. Transport thirty processors from Chongqing to Mong Cai on the Vietnamese border. Bring back the last batch of a treasure buried since the fall of Saigon: the gold of General Nguyen Van Thieu. Eight hundred kilometers of coal trains, armored wood-gas buses, militia checkpoints, and Indochinese jungles reclaimed by the forest. Nothing Liang hasn't done before.Except this time, someone in Chongqing wants him to fail. Someone has put a price on his head. Someone has planted a tracker in his cargo. And on the southern road, the killers are already lining up.A cynical, sensory, relentless road novel set in a future that looks strangely like a past left to rot. For readers of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Morgan, and classic Hong Kong noir.First volume of the New Sulk Road series. Complete novella. No cliffhanger.

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