Beijing Payback

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A fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father’s murderVictor Li and his sister, Jules, are devastated by their father’s murder. As they go through the motions of sorting the estate, Victor finds a confessional letter from his father and learns that he was no simple restauranteur as they were always told. He was a smuggler, part of a vast international crime syndicate, who betrayed his dangerous partners as he settled into a serene life in the Chinese-populated suburbs of Los Angeles.Victor travels to Beijing, intending to avenge his father’s death, but finds himself immersed in an unfamiliar world of glitz and intrigue, where everyone has a hidden agenda and nothing is as it seems. He learns that his father was more than just a cog in a machine—he helped found a sophisticated organization during China’s leanest Communist years that grew into an international criminal network. As Victor navigates his father’s secret life, he finds decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization has launched. This might have been what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists the help of new allies and friends to finish what his father started, even if it means saying goodbye to the life he’s always known.Beijing Payback is a fresh new thriller, bursting with personality and pathos, swift-moving action, and plenty of surprises.