The Jade Tears
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Back at the Chinese Ming food storage warehousing complex, the Black Dragon delivered the cargo of Valuable China White, ecstasy and cocaine, their mainstream recreational money-spinner. The industry for all the Tongs was worth billions, but the dragon was spreading out from the Chinese mainland. They already had control of
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A young Geordie ‘Jason Davidson’ gets on his bike like the Tory government had told him to do, escaping the dying shipyards. He finds himself in the dirty and dangerous world of ‘Oil – Black Gold’. Now with money in his pockets he marries his gold digging Geordie girlfriend. Betrayed by her lust for more, Jason sinks himself into his work and desperately tries to be better but can’t compete with his wife’s lover. Entering a world d of contract working, he decides to work for the highest bidder, an industrial mercenary in the wrong place at the wrong time, lighting a fuse that could haunt him. Emotionally damaged Jason forgets his pain of divorce in the beautiful and intelligent legal executive Hailey. Misunderstanding all signals in his failure to trust once again, Jason walks away from the woman he should have waited for, arresting part of him forever, a prostration he must recover from. Seduced by the unscrupulous ‘Eamon Goldsmith’, Jason Davidson finds himself heading up a company in
Grace the unloved daughter from a family escaping Hong Kong before the British handover to the Chinese, setting up in Singapore – but there is something else more sinister about the Lee family. Grace has never known tenderness. She is of mixed Asian blood and the product of an unsavoury secret, shunned by her father, secretly loved and raised by her aunt in return for his loyalty.
The celestial clash of East and West brings love intothe life of Grace for only the second time, the first being her own kind, and ending in heartbreak. Grace and Jason’s paths have crossed before, when they both were in different worlds, a scene that touches Grace deeply. In
Grace forced to marry a detestable fat Dutchman and fit in with the Tong plans for drugs shipments and an alibi for a European cartel to visit
Jason Davidson becomes a heartbroken wretched shell. Let down once again by the only other woman he truly loved. Vulnerable, Jason goes the ‘land of milk and honey’, a land where all dreams are possible, only to find the
Dan Marlow thinks of Jason like a son. His oil empire needs an heir. The engineer reminds him of himself, but realising he is troubled, Dan sends him to Cape Town, thinking it will clear his mind of the troubles a young man finds himself in, convinced it must be because of an American woman his protégé has ‘the blues’.
Hailey has moved on during the years. Taking up a position with a Dutch company Hailey finds herself in
Dirty dealings and adverse publicity sees the oil company turn its back on Jason, leaving a bad taste in the engineers’ mouth. Hailey helps with his disappointments and they go back to the
Dan Marlow never believed the news, the shock killing him. But the provisions he has made make Jason Davidson a millionaire overnight.
The Tong want Jason dead, and now they know where he is. A bargain is made with an Italian organisation also wanting him dead – A haunting from the past.
Jason finally is reunited with Grace, but not how he expected and Hailey must pick up the pieces.