Chasing the Dragon [Paperback]

Jackie Pullinger (Author), Andrew Quicke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1982

The true story of how one woman's faith resulted in the conversion of hundreds of drug addicts, prostitues and hardened criminals in Hong Kong's infamous Walled City.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'A book to stop you in your tracks.' Liverpool Daily Post 'An appealing mixture of compassion and adventure. A remarkable bestseller.' Manchester Evening News 'Jackie Pullinger is achieving goals that not even the combination of all the colony's isms and agencies, plans and committees have been able to come near.' Hong Kong Sunday Post 'Anyone less likely to go tripping into the vice dens of the notorious Walled City could not be found. Maybe her ignorance saved her ... or her courage.' Daily Mail --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Inside of Hong Kong was the infamous Walled City. Strangers were not welcome there. Police hesitated to enter. It was a haven of filth, crime and sin. Prostitution, pornography and drug addiction flourished. Jackie Pullinger had grown up believing that if she put her trust in God, He would lead her. When she was 20 years old, God called her to the Walled City. She obeyed. And as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal hoods were converted, prostitutes retired from their trade and heroin junkies found new power that freed them from the bondage of drug addiction. Hundreds discovered new life in Christ. Chasing the Dragon tells the whole amazing story—exactly as it happened. Equally amazing has been the reach of this ministry, now detailed in this updated and revised edition. From Hong Kong to the Philippines, Thailand and beyond, the ministry that started with Jackie and her friends taking people in to live and care for them has continued and developed to form the present St. Stephen’s Society. Prepare to be inspired by the testimony of a life given over to the poor and forgotten and the amazing blessings that resulted.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Servant Ministries; 1st Revised edition (December 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892831510
• ISBN-13: 978-0892831517
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,219,986 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story. February 17, 2000

By David Marshall

Format:Paperback

Chasing the Dragon is well-written and fast-paced, and offers a little of everything: cops, robbers, farce, trajedy, an argument or two, and most of all, lives changed by the Gospel. Jackie has led a remarkable life, but wears her experience lightly, with a sense of humor. Having lived in Hong Kong, visited her church and known people who worked with her or become Christians through her ministry, the book was especially interesting to me.

I once traveled around Asia to do research on forced prostitution and AIDs. I hope others will follow her example, in the leading of the Holy Spirit, because there is a great need. In my opinion, this kind of ministry may be one of the key cross-cultural evangelistic outreaches of our time, and this book would be valuable to anyone trying to understand either the past or the future of missions. Many of the most successful Asian evangelists I have met were once drug addicts or criminals. This book might also be a good book to give to a non-Christian friend or to a Christian police officer who has become cynical and forgotten how God can change lives.

One caution: I think readers should beware of a "one-size-fits-all" attempts to emulate the exact ways in which God's spirit works in other peoples' ministries. Jesus should be the pattern for all of us. But like he said, "The fields are ripe to the harvest. Pray the Lord of the Harvest to send out workers."

Author, True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture ([e-mail])

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Jesus the Dragon Slayer November 26, 1999

By Meg Perkins

Format:Paperback

This is an amazing book. Jackie describes how she lives purely by faith, not supported by any missionary society or church, and works fulltime amongst the poorest of the poor and the most wicked of the wicked in the ancient Walled City of Hong Kong. Jackie's ministry is to the drug addicts who "chase the dragon" and the Holy Spirit comes with power and healing to rescue them. Jesus is the Dragon Slayer!

I am a Christian Psychologist and I have recently applied to work as a Prison Chaplain. I think God directed me to read this book so that I would know that the Holy Spirit is wanting to help the drug addicts in Australian prisons too.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars God's Grace Poured into a Willing Vessel July 27, 2000

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I read "Chasing the Dragon" about 16 years ago and then I went . I saw first hand the spirit of the contents of this book and what was written between the lines. It is about having "hard feet and a soft heart" that is what Jackie always says. It is a wonderful story of a place of concentrated darkness and in that 6 acre place more people's lives were touched with God's love and grace, more lives changed and brought to Him than any other 6 acres in all of Hong Kong. It is where darkness and light clashed and the miracles happenned. It's God's grace and love at work in the midst of broken despised people.