The Confrontation

1967: Hong Kong is under the threat of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards rampaging across mainland China; thousands are fleeing to the British colony. The police face riots and bombs. Dozens are dying. All are living in uncertainty over the colony’s future - whether invasion by China or capitulation by Whitehall.
Sebastian Quinn is a British Special Branch interrogator, tasked with unmasking those behind the bombing campaign, known locally as The Confrontation. Beaten up and left with a limp, he struggles with colonialism, police corruption and his own faltering integrity. Distracted by a failing marriage and an affair with a married woman, he races to unmask those behind the bombing before the colony falls.