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China Gate 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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China Gate is William Arnold s
sprawling novel of adventure, love, cnme,
business and honor in past-World War II
China. Vietnam and especially Ta,iwan.
It is about one marts incredible faith in
the American aream--ana now that faith
leads to millions of dollars an epic love
affair, twisted corruption, unprecedented
gangland savagery, avast and futile war
ana ultimately the triumphant emergence
of a mystical and important prophecy,
China Gate is. adore al the saga of
Bryan Whyte as he goes from being a
young American boy caught in the
violent separation of Taiwan from
Mainland Chin a to his growm as the
ovenlord of a vast business empire and
me most powerful man in Asia.
In 1961. byage 16. young Bryan
controls the black market and is the
liason oetween the American
government on Taiwan and the Taiwanese
underworld. He is also the leader of the
Omega Chi, the too American teen-age
gang on the island It is at this early stage
of their development that author Arnold
Introduces us to the other members of
me On" ega Chi: Soldier Taylor, a natural
fighting machine whose one wisp is to
prove himself a true wart, or: John Casy,
a sensitive artist and songwriter whose
gradual immersion i n the idealism of the
60 s peace movement leads h m away
from Bryan Whyte s obsessive dream
Georgie Warner, the comic relief of the
group whose weakness almost aestroys
Whyte and the Omega Chi; Alan Phillips
the moral force behind the gang and the
only one who can Jltimateiy show Whyte
that his dream has, in fact turned into a
nightmare; and Shelley Spencer, Whyte s
one truelove the beautiful emeodiment
of the all-Amencan girl who must to
survive in a world of violence and power
that she cannot comprehend.
China Gate 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书