Will Sears is a financial consultant in Hong Kong with a small Mid-Levels apartment and an orderly routine to his working days. Then a client, tycoon Ronnie Pak, is arrested and Sears is charged with laundering drug-trafficking money. Sears’ apartment is ransacked and his computer records on the Pak family business disappear.​

The Narcotics Bureau, the Corporate Crimes Branch and, above all, the Pak family, believe that Sears has the incriminating files. With his business and personal life in ruins, Sears hides out on Cheung Chau, one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands, under nominal police protection.​

Sears, almost penniless, stays at a deserted villa, and spends his days on the quay with an assortment of eccentrics—the Dog Fanciers’ Society. Then Sears finds out that instead of escaping the web of conspiracy, he is dead at the centre.

Cheung Chau Dog Fanciers’ Society is a perceptive and humorous evocation of life on one of the most fascinating of Hong Kong’s islands as the end of British Rule approaches.