| 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 theliason 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 whosegradual immersion i n the idealism of the60 s peace movement leads h m awayfrom Bryan Whyte s obsessive dreamGeorgie Warner, the comic relief of thegroup whose weakness almost aestroysWhyte and the Omega Chi; Alan Phillipsthe moral force behind the gang and theonly one who can Jltimateiy show Whytethat his dream has, in fact turned into anightmare; and Shelley Spencer, Whyte sone truelove the beautiful emeodimentof the all-Amencan girl who must tosurvive in a world of violence and powerthat she cannot comprehend. |
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