Preview
  • Trouble in Chinatown

  • Gunny Mac Private Detective
  • By: Steven Walker
  • Narrated by: Steven Osarczuk
  • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Trouble in Chinatown

By: Steven Walker
Narrated by: Steven Osarczuk
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $19.95

Buy for $19.95

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

If you liked the movies Casablanca and The Best Years of Our Lives, you will fall in love with this audiobook!

It is 1942. Four badly wounded, medically discharged veterans fight one last battle for their friends and country in the steamy streets of Chinatown, Hawaii!

President Roosevelt orders all the money in Hawaii collected, destroyed, and replaced by money with Hawaii written across the back of each bill—funny money that the Japs can't use if they invade the Hawaiian Islands, if Guadalcanal falls.

Millions of dollars collected and some of the money is about to be taken by anybody who is somebody.

Lt. Commander Kincaid, a drunk, thief, and gambler is in charge of destroying the money and has his own plans on what to do with some of the money.

But one man is standing in his way. A bayoneted, shot-up Navy Cross winner, hero of Bloody Ridge...a man who hates what he is forced to become...a civilian. Awaiting a medical discharge, Gunny Mac is lost without his Marine Corps. He buys a two-dollar book on how to be a private eye, and Chinatown will never be the same.

But sometimes, you have to throw the book away....

But he's not alone. His fellow wounded Marines at the naval hospital, now out of the fight, have lots of fight left in them.

Mac's best friend, Gunny Wojohowitz, needs Mac to help him track down the one man he needs to kill.

Padre McCaffery, a fighting, whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking Jesuit priest and winner of the Navy Cross, recruits Marines in the psych unit to ensure Mac stays safe with hilarious results....

Lt. Burke, a naval officer—a wealthy, spoiled Harvard graduate who is sent to the Marines as an artillery forward observer as punishment—seeks forgiveness and redemption and drags Mac deeper into the corruption of Chinatown.

They shed their blood and their human psyche, but they face one more battle for their country, and for their friends. One last battle...one last victory!

©2021 Steven G. walker (P)2022 Steven G. Walker
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What listeners say about Trouble in Chinatown

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

different than usual

situational-humor, verbal-humor, historical-fiction, historical-figures, historical-places-events, historical-research, historical-setting, history-and-culture, action, suspense, greed, subterfuge, us-marine, ex-marine*****

Fast paced action novel with strong characters and a believable plot including some surprising but real historical info. The publisher's blurb is really good! Couldn't stop reading until the end! Can't wait till the next one!
Steven Osarczuk seems perfect for narrator.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!