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Blinded by the Light

Field agent Nick Najiv puzzles over the recent uptick in lone-wolf terrorist attacks and the two cases he’s been working on: an ostensibly clear-cut drug smuggling in Detroit and a Yakuza murder in Tokyo.

While everyone at the Agency shift their attention to the ongoing attacks, Nick just can’t put aside his nagging suspicion that the recent events are precursor to something much bigger, and that the attacks are linked to his two assigned cases. His hunch begin to crystallize when he meets a beautiful scientist Dr. Catherine Nagle from a Silicon Valley start-up that specializes in nanoparticle pollution control. Together Nick and Catherine race against time to prevent a terrorist network from triggering an ecological apocalypse in the Pacific Northwest.

This book is currently out of print, but you can still purchase a copy from third party sellers on Amazon.

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The Huron’s Bend

All Kodi Auyang wants is the word Doctor before his last name, but the closer he grows to Jordan Blythe, the more he seems to lose touch with reality. Bizarre dreams evolve into daydreams and visions, and his laser focus falters.

Jordan Blythe is an enigma—the polar opposite of Kodi: she comes from a wealthy family and is a virtuoso on the harpsichord, while Kodi lives on Twinkies, soju, and ramen and goes on all-night coding binges. In a struggle to understand her, Kodi finds himself following a trail of Jelly Beans in the Asian Library. There, he comes to realize that Jordan may be modeling her life on a character from a classic work of Chinese literature.

Is Kodi’s analytical perspective being influenced by Jordan’s artistic one? Are the two worlds compatible? Is Kodi just another character in Jordan’s attempt to make life mimic art?

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