RED SUN
In exotic and turbulent nineteenth century China, a wise-cracking customs official must discard his opium pipe and his nightly companions to find out who murdered his best friend, a search which embroils him in a geopolitical battle between three empires. Our reluctant hero must risk torture and death to convince a dilettante Emperor and a depraved and despotic Empress to thwart a German-Japanese plot that threatens to disintegrate the Middle Kingdom.
RIGHTEOUS FIST
The Brits called it the Boxer Rebellion, but the ‘Boxers’ called themselves YiHeQuan; Righteous Fist, and they faced off against the Eight Nation Alliance, their ambitious plan being to rid China of foreigners. It was going to be a bloodbath.
Our hero, however, had better things to do; opium, female companionship and some innocuous bribery and corruption. With any luck he’d be able to sidestep any seismic shift in the tectonic plates of the Orient. But lady luck is fickle, and the ‘troubles’ catch our hero literally with his pants down.
