The Showgirl and the Minister

A disappearance and a tangled knot of sex and politics involving a stripper and Singapore’s former chief minister

The 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.

‘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 Blues