Author David G. Rose
Book Price
£10.00 paperback (2nd edition, revised)
£2.50 e-book, Kindle Edition and ePub Edition (Valentines offer to end of February). The Kindle version currently only through Amazon/Kindle at approximately $3.50/ £2.22/ €2.65)
Book Description
This is a thriller and love story with a martial arts background. It is set in Brussels, Hong Kong and China between 1979 and 1981. There is action in Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg, Marseilles and Portugal in Part One and in Hong Kong in Part Two.
The central character is Julian de Lyon, a French-Chinese agent with a UN anti-slavery committee in Brussels. A former DEA agent and master of the ancient Korean Hwarang martial art he discovers an exclusive 'catalogue', the abduction to order of girls from society families around Europe. His English nephew Peter, and Peter's Belgian friends Daphne and Thérèse, become embroiled in the syndicate’s revenge. Daphne follows Julian to Portugal where he is seeking the truth of triad and his aristocratic wife’s involvement in the vice operation. Part One ends with a fight to the death with triad enforcers and rogue CIA agents in a mediaeval cliff top castle on Portugal's western Algarve. The author models the triad on Hong Kong’s 14K and the martial art on the generic Hwarang or Hwarangdo of Korea.
 In Part Two, Julian returns to the Far East to face his past and the triad of his youth. With the support of British and American intelligence, the triad boss's son and a team of Julian's Korean martial arts pupils the triad is broken in a dramatic operation in the colony during Typhoon Joe of 1980. After a final attempt on his life by a Red Pole, Julian returns to China to revisit his family and then to Europe to Daphne and a final confrontation with his wife. The unexpected continues through the final pages.
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Book Details
Triad by David Gordon Rose, published 19 January 2010 by RoseTintedSpecs Imprint. Printed by Anthony Rowe on 90 gsm Bookwove paper. Paperback is full colour laminated cover, mono interior, 322 pages, 216 mm high by 140 mm wide (8.5" x 5.5"), cover price £10 (US$ 16). Front cover illustration "Foo Lion, Jasmine Gate, Forbidden City". Back cover illustration “Star Ferry Pier, Kowloon Side.” It is also printed and distributed by Amazon. Text and physical characteristics are identical except Amazon use American trade cream 90 gsm paper. This is a high quality paperback with an attractive gloss cover. Book size is generous, as are the interior margins and font size. It is a reading experience similar to that of a hardback book.
ISBN 978-0-9544518-2-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-9571686-4-0 (.mobi/Kindle)
ISBN 978-0-9571686-5-7 (.epub)
Crits
“Full of action and reeking of authenticity.” Patrick Barrett
“A slick page-turner with strong characterization and a wonderful sense of place.” J. M. Dalhousie
“This is exciting, very well written, is complex, has more than sufficient authenticity about it, and concerns a horrific trade. I suspect this would make an excellent film.” David Seaby
“This reads exceptionally well. I can see it as a movie and a very good one. I know little about triads except what I have seen in films. I do know a bit about the white slave trade and this rings very true.” Hilary Waters
“An international thriller!! Lots of action and some excellent description. Love the detail. When you can paint a scene with just a few choice strokes, like an impressionist painter, you will have the reader tossed quickly into a well-textured scene that does not belabor the point. Great work!” Richard Davies
“I came to this expecting a thriller, and naturally I got one. What I wasn’t expecting was the truly thoughtful quality of the writing as a whole, which I intend as a sincere compliment. The details that bring the story together and the way that it lives and moves show that you spent a great deal of time on not just writing but conceptualizing. I’m so happy to have shelved it and will continue to read on.” Jeanne M. Haskin
“This is a ride! I actually can see this as a blockbuster action/thriller movie. You set scenes very well and follow up with solid writing. Might not quite be my genre, but this is a good read.” Elaina J. Davidson
“A taught, tense thriller. A great read and, as others have said, one for the big screen too.” Andrew J. Morgan
My thanks to the HarperCollins Authonomy community of authors for troubling to read and comment on the book.
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