Product Description
This is a thriller and love story with a martial arts background. The story is set in Brussels around Europe and in Hong Kong and China between 1979 and 1981. There is action and story-line in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Cannes, Hamburg, Marseilles and Portugal in Part One and in Hong Kong, China and The Seychelles in Part Two.
The central character is Julian de Lyon, a French-Chinese agent with a UN anti-slavery committee in Brussels. A former DEA agent and master of the ancient Korean Hwarang martial art he discovers an exclusive 'catalogue', the abduction to order of girls from society families around Europe. His English nephew Peter, and Peter's Belgian friends Daphne and Thérèse, become embroiled in the syndicate’s revenge. Daphne follows Julian to Portugal where he is seeking the truth of triad and his aristocratic wife’s involvement in the vice operation. Part One ends with a fight to the death with triad enforcers and rogue CIA agents in a mediaeval cliff top castle on Portugal's western Algarve. The author models the triad on Hong Kong’s 14K and the martial art on the generic Hwarang or Hwarangdo of Korea.
In Part Two, Julian returns to the Far East to face his past and the triad of his youth. With the support of British and American intelligence and CIA, the triad boss's son and a team of Julian's Korean martial arts pupils the triad is broken in a dramatic operation in the colony during Typhoon Joe of 1980. After a final attempt on his life by a Red Pole, Julian returns to China to revisit his family and then to Europe to Daphne and a final confrontation with his wife. The unexpected continues through the final pages.
The central character is Julian de Lyon, a French-Chinese agent with a UN anti-slavery committee in Brussels. A former DEA agent and master of the ancient Korean Hwarang martial art he discovers an exclusive 'catalogue', the abduction to order of girls from society families around Europe. His English nephew Peter, and Peter's Belgian friends Daphne and Thérèse, become embroiled in the syndicate’s revenge. Daphne follows Julian to Portugal where he is seeking the truth of triad and his aristocratic wife’s involvement in the vice operation. Part One ends with a fight to the death with triad enforcers and rogue CIA agents in a mediaeval cliff top castle on Portugal's western Algarve. The author models the triad on Hong Kong’s 14K and the martial art on the generic Hwarang or Hwarangdo of Korea.
In Part Two, Julian returns to the Far East to face his past and the triad of his youth. With the support of British and American intelligence and CIA, the triad boss's son and a team of Julian's Korean martial arts pupils the triad is broken in a dramatic operation in the colony during Typhoon Joe of 1980. After a final attempt on his life by a Red Pole, Julian returns to China to revisit his family and then to Europe to Daphne and a final confrontation with his wife. The unexpected continues through the final pages.
