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The Dandy Vigilante
- published July 5, 2014!
An aspiring news reporter dons an old man disguise to follow his wife, a psychologist, as an exercise in investigative journalism, never expecting signs of infidelity. Although he yearns for a family, he risks his career to uncover the truth about her. Lurking in Boston’s shadows, he encounters crimes that he is compelled to intervene in even though it frustrates his purpose. The media pick up and play up his elderly martial arts persona. Worse, his boss assigns him to cover this hot story of the man dubbed the "Dandy Vigilante," and then pressures him to slant his stories against vigilantism, undoubtedly as a favor to the mayor of Boston.
A connection to the city administration hits too close to home, and the reporter expands his investigation to murky political corruption while his emotions contract to a personal hell. He and his wife finally try to reconcile, but police arrest her for a high-profile murder. Then he is, too—for the same murder. Helping her will implicate him, unless he gets exculpatory evidence—for both of them; otherwise, he will lose everything.
While on the lam, another high-profile murder occurs, and a cascade of obstacles keep him from the evidence he needs. Laws and powerful people stand in his way, but he is willing to break them all—even if he has to kill. Deep connections to his psychological past finally reach for him, as his wife knows, which will either save his life or end it.
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South Pacific Survivor
Published 2009.
An assassin decapitates a U.S. congressman in American Samoa then enters independent Samoa. Polynesian beauty Pua discovers that further targets may include thier nation's leader—her grandfather. As the sole agent of the Samoan Secret Service, Pua must stop the assassin and prevent a coup. With an anti-colonial chip on her shoulder and a black belt to back it up, she faces a down-on-his-luck CIA agent and a rogue New Zealand diplomat. They close in on each other and the warrior-assassin as they race to unravel Robert Louis Stevenson’s secret. It leads to evidence that could re-ignite civil war if disclosed, which a shadowy chief tries to do. Murders mount, a riot rips through the capital, and a Chinese agent works her own agenda. Military ships and a hurricane approach, and Pua and Ken must put aside the past and unite to prevent the archipelago’s disintegration and their own demise.
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