The Scholar of Extortion

by RegGadney (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $4.76

  When Winston Lim, an incorruptible Inspector in the Hong Kong police force, receives a tip that a major act of maritime terrorism is about to happen, he races off into the eye of a storm and soon realises, before reaching a grisly end, that he has walked straight into a trap.His adversary, and the man responsible, is Klaas-Pieter Terajima, aka 'The Scholar of Extortion'. Fantastically cruel and wildly inventive (in his range of killing options), Terajima has been hired by the corrupt Zhentung brothers to protect their activities in the South China Seas, which are secretly sanctioned by the authorities in Beijing. Alan Rosslyn is drawn into the action as he must honour a promise to look after Winston Lim's step-daughter, Mai. But it seems Mai is far closer to The Scholar of Extortion than her father ever got and Terajima seems prepared to use everything at his disposal to destroy her, and anyone who crosses his path.An exhilarating, white-knuckle thriller about modern piracy in the Far East, The Scholar of Extortion sees Reg Gadney at the height of his powers. And in Klaas-Pieter Terajima he has created Rosslyn's most fearsome foe to date, and perhaps one of the most convincing and terrifying psychopaths in contemporary fiction.