{"product_id":"the-showgirl-and-the-minister-by-felix-cheong-arif-rafhan-9789815144314","title":"THE SHOWGIRL AND THE MINISTER","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA disappearance, and a tangled knot of sex and politics involving a stripper and Singapore's former Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSydney, 1966. Flower power is in full swing. The Cold War is at its height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere in Kings Cross, Singapore's former Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock is missing. Now the Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia, he had left his home in Canberra without a word of where he had gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs he dead? During his reign as Chief Minister, he had cracked down hard on the Communists, and they will want to settle scores with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs he in hiding from mounting debts? Lim is known for his punts on the horses on weekends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOr is he mixed up in Cold War espionage? One of his ministers, Chew Swee Kee, was alleged to have received money from the CIA—and there are rumours Lim had his share of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd how is a nineteen-year-old stripper, Sandra Nelson, Russian by birth, involved in this shady business? Is she Lim's honey trap?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrivate detective Dave Chen has to unravel these tangled knots of political intrigue and personal trauma—and confront his own demons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in poetic form by Felix Cheong and wonderfully illustrated by Arif Rafhan, \u003cem\u003eThe Showgirl and the Minister\u003c\/em\u003e is inspired by the real-life disappearance of Lim over 10 days in 1966.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46675600343276,"sku":"9789815144314","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18784363485682.jpg?v=1752939587","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-showgirl-and-the-minister-by-felix-cheong-arif-rafhan-9789815144314","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}