In this installment, Jas and Sam work for Abdul alongside Penny. Sam focuses on creating adverts that speak to the crowds (cartoon Beaky steals the show) and Jas follows Penny as she visits customers on the Beijing ship. Abdul is also a trader. His customers complain of a lack of stock and getting old medicine and even stuff they don't sell.
Penny doesn't seem all that interested but Jas decides to find out why.
Detective Zhang is fighting his sex addiction. He is following Jas as she has the code and he goes to the Beijing ship, a ship he should not return to. There is a great back story there that needs to be explored more (like Kreese in Cobra Kai).
There's a lot happening in this book. I'm not exactly sure why Janie hates Jas as much as she does, must have missed something. I know that in book one she wasn't happy that Abdul overtook the closing-down party and made the event about him, Jas, and Sam. Sven didn't seem to mind.
This book suffers like all second books in a series. It seems like a lead-in to book three. Sure it was enjoyable, the story and characters were fun (at times very childish Sun and Po interaction with Jassy and Zhang), and the last 15% was unputdownable.
I thought this series was about The Code that Jas stole. No one seems interested in that anymore. It is only mentioned once.
Another thing, our heroes Sam and Jas are barely in the book. Popping up now and then, so we don't forget about them.
I have the third book in the series and will start that soon.
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