Don Stratton

China Gold Don Stratton

A famous historian is brutally murdered on Florida's Casey Key. The murder weapon is a samurai sword that a Japanese colonel surrendered to Professor Hunter McCoy's grandfather at the end of World War Two. With evidence mounting against him, Hunter's dad is arrested for the murder. As they search for the truth, both McCoys are drawn deeper into an increasingly elaborate web of deceit. Working out of the basement of a convent in Wuchang during the war, Dr. Li Qiang Chen, a Chinese country doctor, is believed to have discovered an extraordinary medicine capable of preventing the development of diabetes. The missing research notebook of the long dead physician may be inadvertently linked to a convicted Japanese war criminal. When Hunter becomes convinced that finding the notebook is the key to clearing his dad of the murder charge, he teams up with Billie Chen, Dr. Chen's great-granddaughter. Almost immediately, Hunter finds himself enmeshed in a continuing series of lies and misdirection that only deepens his dad's apparent guilt in the eyes of the law and potentially threatens everything Hunter holds dear.