RED PAPER FAN He came looking for comfort. He found his destiny. Allen Hartsworth has lost everything that mattered — his marriage, his health, his sense of who he is. Adrift in the silence of an empty house, he stumbles into a forbidden world he was never meant to find: the hidden economy of late-night massage parlors, where a pink neon sign changes the direction of his life forever. Through Nicole, then Ivy — a woman of extraordinary beauty and harder-won resilience — Allen is drawn deeper into the orbit of Uncle Charlie, the Buddha-still patriarch of a Triad network stretching from South Florida to the Canadian border to the Chinese mainland. Allen becomes useful. Then indispensable. Then marked. As White Paper Fan — the first foreigner ever initiated into the organization's innermost circle — Allen navigates a secret world of loyalty enforced by an incriminating video, and a debt designed never to be repaid, and a love that arrives in the most impossible of circumstances. His daughter Yue exists. Ivy will not come. And somewhere in New York, an old man's butler has been collecting his trash. Because Allen Hartsworth is not who he has always believed himself to be. There is a secret in his blood and the people looking for him have been looking for longer than he has known he was lost. Red Paper Fan is a psychological thriller about love as leverage, identity as the last thing worth protecting, and how far a man will go to keep both — across several countries and every version of himself he has to become to survive them.
