Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Death In The Dojo (Book 2)


The story was about the deaths of a Karate Masters (Kawaguchi) and his No 2 man (Ito)in a Karate Training Center (Dojo). Both deaths were caused by a single deadly punch. Kate Jensen, a reporter and karateka, and also daughter of an ex boxer and Journalist, like his father she followed her dad's foot step. Kate was assigned by her Boss the Editor of "The Daily Echo" to cover the story. With the help of her police contact at Scotland Yard, her Indian Karateka friend (Sanjay) and her father she tried to obtained information.

After a long search and fact finding, Kate decided to fly to Tokyo to meet Kawaguchi's daughter (Naoko) who was victim of a murder attempt thirty years earlier. She hoped that the event had connection with her father murder case. From Naoko, Kate found out that thirty years ago, her father was trying to separate her from her boyfriend (Blakeston) by hiring a murderer to just scare her boyfriend. Unfortunately Blakeston made a move that made the murderer accidentally kill him and injured Naoko. She had to be in wheel chair for the rest of her life. Things got complicated when the police arrested the wrong guy (Brendan Murphy) and had him hanged to death.

Actually when Brendan was still waiting for his case to be brought to justice, Tony Jensen (Kate's father) and the real murderer (Peter Benson who was a psychopath) made attempts to tell the truth about who killed Naoko's boyfriend. However nobody believed them. The death of this innocent man (Brendan Murphy) meant someone had to pay back for his death. And Kate's guess was right; the murder case of thirty years ago actually had connection with the murder of Kawaguchi and Ito recently. Who was the avenger ?

I like this story because the ending is unpredictable.

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