TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nieh,Daniel
TI  - Beijing payback: a novel 
SN  - 9780062886644
AV  - PS3614.I35626 B45 2018
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Basketball players
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Murder
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - China
KW  - College students
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Beijing (China)
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Noir fiction
N2  - A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur, in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father's secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs
ER  -