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.