![]() ![]() He later completed a master’s degree in folklore at UC-Berkeley, before devoting the 1970s to the publishing industry in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. After serving stints in semi-pro baseball and the Lackawanna steel mills, he earned his degree from City College while working full-time at Fortune, Time, and Newsweek magazines. John Enright was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. Set against the steamy backdrop of the Samoan jungle, this thoughtful whodunit introduces a memorable new gumshoe to the ranks of detective fiction. ![]() As the evidence piles up, Apelu follows a tangled trail between cultures, dead bodies, hidden codes, and a string of lies on his hunt for the ugly truth buried at the heart of paradise. ![]() And what appears to be a simple, open-and-shut case turns out to anything but. And that gulf never yawns wider than when a white family’s home in Pago Pago is burglarized. Here, Apelu must walk the line between two cultures: Samoan versus American, native versus new. Because on a small island where no one is a stranger and secrets are widely known but never discussed, solving crimes requires a certain.finesse. But back home on American Samoa, life is personal-especially for a cop. ![]() Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua spent seven years in the San Francisco Police Department, where the job was just a job and solving crimes required cool detachment. ![]()
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