Chasing the Dragon

Name: Chasing the Dragon
Rating: 4.722222328186035 (18 reviews)

Jackie Pullinger · Andrew Quicke

Jan 2012 · Hachette UK

4.7

18 reviews

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Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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4.7

18 reviews

David Bean

June 3, 2024

It was because of this book that I first heard God speaking to me. My dad had lent me it after a conversation about God when I was about 15. I politely took it but had no intention of reading it. When 'a voice in my head' asked why I wasn't going to read it, I replied "because it's boring". The voice said "why don't you just read the first page and if it is boring then stop reading?" So I did but I forgot to stop reading until I was several pages in. God had made his point and this is still the most exciting, inspiring book (aside from the Bible) that I have ever read. It was the beginning of my journey to salvation.

Claudia Chan

November 2, 2014

A riveting, moving and inspiring real life story of the work of Christ through a lady who was willing to listen and follow the Lord to evangelize in HK.

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Christelle Groenewald

August 6, 2019

Absolutely amazing!!!!

About the author

Jackie Pullinger-To is a British woman who lives and works among the poor, the homeless and the drug addicts of Hong Kong. Over thirty years ago she went to Hong Kong on a one way ticket, and arrived knowing no one with just $100 HK in her pocket. She lived and worked in Kowloon's notorious 'Walled City' and by 1981 she had set up the St Stephen's Society, which provides rehabilitation homes for recovering drug addicts, prostitutes, and gang members. By December 2007 it had grown to provide homes for 200 people. The charity's work has been recognized by the Hong Kong government who donated the land for the rehabilitation homes. Jackie's story is told in her renowned book Chasing the Dragon and she still lives in Hong Kong and runs the St Stephen's Society.

Andrew Quicke is Chairman of the School of Cinema-Television at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. He has lived in London, Southern California, Bangkok Thailand and Jerusalem Israel where he was bureau news chief for CBN and Middle East Television.

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