A literary and satirical reportage of the Rafael Hui/Thomas Kwok corruption trial in Hong Kong, the most sensational and lengthy such trial in Hong Kong's history. A reader of the original reports on NTSCMP wrote: The Toy Boys - as my dictation software has it - purports to be an account of the recent trial and conviction in the High Court of one Raphael Hui, former Chief Secretary, at the moment of writing behind bars, together with that of his co-conspirators, Thomas Kwok and their two "bagmen". But the book might more accurately be called a scathing indictment of the upper reaches of present-day Hong Kong.The Hui Boys fits the bill with its beginning, middle and end, strong narrative line, vivid heroes and villains, wide supporting cast, plenty of dialogue in a variety of styles and final triumph of good over evil. The author often appears to be providing a mere camera-eye perspective, an objective description, even to the point of sometimes conveying tedium and mind-boggling complexity of detail. But in fact he selects, interprets, synthesises, moralises and politicises, for such is the nature of language and the individual consciousness. And the whole is leavened with many personal, social, socialist tending towards the anarchist, even philosophical asides and developments.