✪ Winner of the Golden Tripod Award, Taiwan Literature Award, Taipei Book Fair Award, and Mirror Fiction Million Dollar Award.
✪ The adapted Netflix series ranked top #1 in Taiwan

Lawyer by training, now a successful director/screenwriter, who also happens to have written the biggest award-winning novel of the year? Yup, that about sums up Freddy Tang and his debut thriller, PORT OF LIES.

In 1950s Taiwan, large numbers of Ami tribesmen from the east coast moved north to work on fishing boats based in the port of Bachimen. Raised in these environs, Tung Pao-Chu watched his elders struggling to make ends meet as fishermen and decided he would pursue a different path.

After years as a public defense lawyer and just as he is preparing to leave the office to pursue more lucrative work, Tung is assigned a difficult murder case, with an illegal Indonesian immigrant as the suspect, and his childhood friend as the victim. The brutality of the murders combining the tensions of racial issues has thrust the case into the spotlight, not only from the public eyes, but also the government and big enterprise. Tung begins to doubt whether the case is as simple as it seems. What was the motive for the murders? And what transpired on the fishing boat during its final voyage?

PORT OF LIES is a fast-paced legal thriller that boldly tackles serious issues of the death penalty, immigrant workers, and racial identity. Cinematic in its storytelling and reminiscent of John Grisham’s best courtroom drama, this is a page-turner with a lot of heart.