This book has some wink-wink moments when reading this story. One must suspend their belief of believing some of the circumstances involved in the events. I continued to reading this story because the PK has the symptoms of a person with autism or Asperger's Syndrome and a friend of mine has a child that has Aspergers. Different people of the history pop up conveniently at helpful times. So the story is a bit contrived. Also you get to visit an opium den and meet a soiled dove. Again some more wink-wink reading. It's an okay story.
