The Foreigner: A Novel

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, "a thriller, rife with murders, drugs, secrets and betrayals" (Los Angeles Times).

Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale about family, fraternity, conscience, and the curious gulf between a man's culture and his deepest self.

Emerson Chang is a mild mannered bachelor on the cusp of forty, a financial analyst in a neatly pressed suit, a child of...