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Heart of Glass is a pacy literary thriller set in the 1980s� disco era. It is exotic and noirish popular fiction. Li-an is a con artist and talented Chinese American musician in Chicago�s Chinatown. With accomplice Dallas, she drugs and robs rich guys in bars. Dallas is caught. Li-An wants to come clean. Chicago, 4 November 1980, US elections night. America is celebrating Reagan's win over Carter. She accepts a piano-playing job in Macau offered by Italian restaurant businessman Paolo. She gets to live luxuriously in a Portuguese colonial gothic mansion. She meets New York DJ Ben, her crush, her nemesis and a compulsive gambler in the Macau casinos. He says she�s being exploited. When he overhears that Paolo has left her all his assets, he plots to kill Paolo so they can cut a recording deal in New York. But will it work? Will she ever escape?