Who said following Jesus was boring?
Reviewer: David Marshall from Nagasaki, Japan February 9, 2000

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, and her sense of humor is evidence that her success hasn't gone to her head. I've met her twice. The second time, God used our meeting to speak to me in an unexpected and round-about way, of which she was not even aware.

There certainly is room for others to follow her example by reaching out to drug addicts and prostitutes. In my opinion, this may be one of the key cross-cultural evangelistic ministries of our time. Many of the most successful Asian evangelists I have met were once drug addicts and criminals. God has delighted in using the weak things of this world to confound the strong, as Paul put it. And the need is great, especially with the spread of AIDs. Christians going to the mission field might pray about ministry to drug addicts and prostitutes. Dragon might also be a good book to give to non-Christian friends.

One caution: I think readers should avoid a "one size fits all" attempt to emulate the precise ways in which God's spirit used her ministry. Jesus should be our primary pattern, not Jackie Pullinger or anyone else.

Inspirational: Holy Spirit power and love victory over drugs
Reviewer: Robert Crickett from Melbourne Australia, 1989 May 20, 1999

I manage the provision of drug treatment services in Port Phillip Prison, Melbourne, and have applied a great deal that I have learned from this book. Of special interest to me is the power of the Holy Spirit in healing; the total dominion over addiction and the shattered heart, which Jesus has; the profound love God has for the broken person who is bound up with drug addiction, crime, violence and poverty; and the miraculous manner in which Jesus can create a whole new person out of even the worst shell.

Jackie's book has been a guide to my own walk in faith and healing with drug users for over ten years. I have put into practice the kinds of things she writes about, and I have to say it's all true.

I have distributed numerous copies of her book around the prison, to both Asian and Australian prisoners, as a starting place for prayer and knowledge of Jesus. They have been well received, and helped to bring people to God and a new life.

The book is ably backed up by another, which is similar but filled with extremely valuable photographs of her work and the people she and her team have touched through Jesus: Pullinger, Jackie and Armitage, Carolyn. 1989. "Crack in the wall: life and death in Kowloon Walled City." Butler & Tanner, London.