In the first chapter of your new western novel Payback at Morning Peak, your 17-year-old protagonist, Jubal, finds his mother dead, shoots his dad in the head as he burns alive and tries in vain to save the life of his 14-year-old sister, who has just been raped. You wanted it to start slow, huh?Yeah, I wanted to dig myself into a hole so that I would have 300 pages to get myself out.
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Hong Kong’s Ritz-Carlton: A Hotel with Altitude
If you’ve taken in the views from Hong Kong’s famous Victoria Peak, there’s a new aerie from which to catch vistas just as vertiginous — and that’s the newly opened Ritz-Carlton.