Beijing Payback

Author(s): Daniel Nieh

Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Los Angeles

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Contemporary

Victor Li and his sister Jules are devastated by their father’s murder in a botched burglary. Their dad was a well-loved owner of several popular Chinese restaurants outside Los Angeles. But when Victor finds a confessional letter from his father, Vincent Li, he learns that he was no simple restaurateur. He lived a double life as a founding member of an international crime syndicate led by him and his “brothers;” fellow orphans who survived China’s leanest communist years and who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

Victor travels to Beijing to avenge his father’s murder but he’s an outsider in a complicated place where people have nothing to lose, answers are not simple, and he has to learn to respect what he cannot see. Daniel Nieh captures the authentic details and texture of the Chinese capital as his characters move from seedy nightclubs to palatial hutongs filled with hi-tech secrets.

Beijing Payback is a fresh new thriller bursting with personality and pathos, swift-moving action and plenty of surprises.

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