This is a thriller and love story with a martial arts background. The first part is set in Brussels and other cities around Europe. The second part sees action in Hong Kong, then a return to Europe. The book spans 1979 to 1981. The sequel, Revenge of the Triad (to be published), spans the years 2009-2011.
The protagonist, Julian de Lyon is French-Chinese. He is a master of Korean "Hwarang" and an agent for a UN anti-slavery committee based in Brussels investigating the disappearance of youngsters around Europe (estimated to be 50,000 annually in 1980). Julian realises there is an...

This sequence of sonnets was written for Margaret who is known as the Lady, or Lublu pictured on the book's cover. She spent part of her early life in the theatre and I was impressed with the well-read Complete Works of Shakespeare she had at her side.
It was the sonnets she dipped into and within a year of our meeting I vowed to write one more to her than Shakespeare wrote to his love(s). Such bravado was on the basis of my having written two poems to the Lady, one a parody vaguely Shakespearean.
They were immediately more satisfying to compose than letters, or than presenting the...