About This Book
Welcome to the twenty-seventh exciting episode of the Love and Death Mystery and Political Espionage Series. After retiring from official duty with the CIO, Harold Gatewood is coaxed back into service after living a peaceful, enjoyable, retired, life in his hometown of Gibson City, Illinois.The CIO wants him to reduce the flow of weapons into America by his old nemesis, the Yakuza crime organization headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.After thinking about his past career with the CIO, and analyzing the pros and cons of a return to the spy game as a covert agent for America, he throws caution to the wind in order to save one of his two special lovers, the stunning, beautiful, sinister, Yua Hayato, the head of the Yakuza.Gatewood's long, death-filled, history with the Yakuza, and his loving relationship with its leader, make him the only agent with the right connections to address, and complete, the mission at hand.To save the life of his beautiful lover, he must battle with a fraudulent, sham organization called the Americans For Fairness And Reparations, the AFFAR, which is run by two ex-con thugs, Kibwe Imamu, and Sefu Tendaji.He must also prevent a Tokyo-based, family-run, terrorist group, the Juro family, from helping deliver sarin nerve gas to the AFFAR, which is going to use it in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern port cities of America to cause a panic, which will help a corrupt, political party try to gain leverage in the following year's presidential election.Good guys, bad guys, terrorist groups, corrupt politicians, beautiful lovers, and an evil, second-in-command, Yakuza, inner-circle member, Haruto Riku, who wants to replace Gatewood's lover Yua Hayato, as the head of the organization, all pull Gatewood in different directions as he tries to do his duty for his country.His other long-time lover, the number-one-ranked, contract-assassin, in the world, Susana Richards, also spices up his adventure in Tokyo.
