A review by left_coast_justin
Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limón

3.0

This was a quite-readable procedural, but I'm a little astonished by all the rave reviews it's received. This book was written a few decades back, and maybe it's just that time has passed it by, but I find it odd that several of the reviews refer to its sensitive portrait of downtrodden Korean women when, in fact, every Korean woman in the book was some sort of sex worker, and little attention was paid to them outside the use to which they could be put.

It was perhaps a little more interesting than most of this genre, since it's so thoroughly marinated in two foreign cultures (military police and Korean). The level of authenticity and insider knowledge seems high, but it isn't exactly the best book of its type.