The Showgirl and the Minister

‘A must read beautifully written and illustrated noir thriller with plot twists that will make your head spin.’ - Nick Andors American graphic novelist Dream in BluesA disappearance and a tangled knot of sex and politics involving a stripper and Singapore’s former chief ministerThe year is 1966. The world is at a tipping point. The Cold War is at its height; the confrontation between Indonesia and Malaysia is on the brink of a full-blown war. Meanwhile social mores are being threatened by flower power being in full swing in cities from Chelsea to San Francisco.Somewhere in Kings Cross Singapore’s former Chief Minister Lim Quee Hock now the Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia is missing.Is he dead? Is he hiding from mounting debts? Or is he mixed up in Cold War espionage?And how is a nineteen-year-old stripper Sabrina Nicholson involved in this shady business?Written in poetic form by Felix Cheong and wonderfully illustrated by Arif Rafhan The Showgirl and the Minister is a groundbreaking graphic novel inspired by real-life events.