Death of a Perm Sec is a mystery about the demise of the permanent-secretary of the housing ministry, Chow Sze Teck, accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes over his career. Set in 1980's Singapore, the novel examines the civil servant’s death, which first appears to be suicide by a cocktail of alcohol, morphine and Valium. But upon investigation by a CID inspector who might not be what he seems, the family discovers there may be far more sinister circumstances behind his death, that reach to the very top of government.
The novel exposes the dark heart of power politics, from the country’s tumultuous post-independence days to the socio-political landscape of the 1980s.
© 2016 Wong Souk Yee. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2021.
© 2021 Storyside (Lydbok): 9789178897346
© 2016 Epigram Books (E-bok): 9789814757355
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 7. april 2021
E-bok: 1. oktober 2016
Tagger
Death of a Perm Sec is a mystery about the demise of the permanent-secretary of the housing ministry, Chow Sze Teck, accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes over his career. Set in 1980's Singapore, the novel examines the civil servant’s death, which first appears to be suicide by a cocktail of alcohol, morphine and Valium. But upon investigation by a CID inspector who might not be what he seems, the family discovers there may be far more sinister circumstances behind his death, that reach to the very top of government.
The novel exposes the dark heart of power politics, from the country’s tumultuous post-independence days to the socio-political landscape of the 1980s.
© 2016 Wong Souk Yee. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2021.
© 2021 Storyside (Lydbok): 9789178897346
© 2016 Epigram Books (E-bok): 9789814757355
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 7. april 2021
E-bok: 1. oktober 2016
Tagger
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