Cale Dixon, a San Francisco detective on the tail end of a one year suspension, is assigned a research case involving a South Korean man, the oldest son of the Won family; found on a San Francisco museum floor before dawn with a mouth full of Moguk rubies and stabbed in the back with an Un jang do knife that through research Cale discovers has been discreetly passed down through generations of the Cho dynasty women. In the beginning Cale has nothing to go on so he travels on a scheduled vacation but alters course to Burma to learn more about the Moguk ruby. He, by chance, falls in the right hands and meets up with a major Mandalay stone cutting jewelry family. While the jewelers do some black market research for Cale, he tours the Burmese country side somewhere between hiding from the secret police and running from the militant police arm of the government, the Tatmandaw. After witnessing the repression in Burma Cale returns to San Francisco and gets caught in the cross fire of two feuding families, a South Korean family and an American family. Cale gets more twists and turns than he bargains for.


 

About the Author



David Dagley was raised in Mill Valley, California and has been working in the Bering Sea for the last 10 years. He taught English in South Korea and has traveled extensively through South East Asia in his off time. He resides in Seward, Alaska.