Beijing Payback - Paperback

by Daniel Nieh (Author)

"Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading." --The New York Times Book Review

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder

Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur--in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist years.

Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father's secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.

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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 murder

Victor 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.