Brand 8 by Neil Hunter

Author:Neil Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: western, wild west, old west, neil hunter, jason brand, western pulp fiction, us frontier justice
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

His name was Kwo Han, the son of a poor dock-worker, who had learned at an early age that a man had one chance in life to make good. Watching his father struggle through each day, breaking his back and his spirit to earn enough to keep food in the mouths of his family had taught the young Kwo Han another lesson. That physical toil made no man rich or powerful. Not in the streets of Shanghai. There was money to be made in other ways. By trickery. By deceit. And by plain and simple stealing. Kwo Han learned these facts with ease and quickly turned his talents to good use. By the time he was ten years old he was an accomplished pick-pocket. He had also tried his hand at burglary, and had already gathered himself an ample reserve of money and other valuables. In his sixteenth year, yearning for greater glory, Kwo Han was presented with a rare opportunity. He was approached by a courier of the Shanghai Tong, the elite of China’s underworld organisations. The Tongs, secretive criminal societies, were feared and respected by both sides of the law. They had their own rules to govern the behaviour of their members, and any Tong recruit learned these rules before anything else. To go against the Tong meant suffering and death. For Kwo Han the terrors threatened by the Tongs meant nothing. He knew that once he was admitted nothing could stand in his way. His assumption proved to be correct. In his first five years with the Tong he advanced rapidly. Initially he was given work as a courier but an incident involving members of a rival Tong revealed the violent talents of the young Kwo Han. His reward was promotion to the ranks of the Tong assassins. He was given instruction in the use of the traditional Tong weapons and rigorous training in the martial arts. Kwo Han became a deadly and efficient killer of men. Time after time be proved his worth and his loyalty to the Tong. In his mid-twenties he had progressed through the lower ranks of the society to become a respected and feared Tong Master, one who no longer took orders, but one who gave them, and accepted no excuses for failure. His need for power and his desire to extend the reach of the Tong beyond the shores of China turned his eyes towards the great American continent. Kwo Han realised the potential presenting itself. He saw the countless thousands pouring into the vast, rich lands and he knew that there was a future for his organisation in the New World. San Francisco and the Barbary Coast were ready-made breeding grounds for the criminally orientated, and the Tong of Kwo Han quickly established itself. Gambling, prostitution, the distribution and promotion of opium addiction. These were only a few of the Tong’s dealings. It was also involved in the control of Chinese labor, the supply of goods to Chinese owned stores.

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