Killer of Killers

So I finished my first novel about a year ago. It’s called KILLER OF KILLERS, and Ange Tysdal of AKA Literary, LLC is the literary agent who represents it.

Killer of Killers is about a martial arts champion. He goes by the name of Trent Smith, but it’s a fake name. I never give his real name. He trained in Tokyo, and they called him Tora over there. Midori no Me no Tora. It means the Green-Eyed Tiger.

Trent Smith is a Judan. A tenth degree black belt in Ju Jitsu. Shoji Wada, the greatest martial artist on the planet, trained him. Shoji developed his own martial art by melding Ju Jitsu with Budo. Ju Jitsu is a Japanese martial art known for its soft and flowing movements. Budo is the militaristic Japanese art of killing. That’s why Shoji called it Budo Ju Jitsu or Bu Jitsu. Mostly they train military personnel or policemen, but they also take in top ranked black belts from around the world. It’s like a martial arts graduate school.

Trent falls in love with Shoji’s granddaughter. Of course, she is very beautiful. Her name is Yoshiko. She is wooed by many, but loves only Trent. She idolized him since the day he arrived as an 18 year-old black belt and they plan to get married.

But times don’t stay happy for Trent. He moonlights in the underground fighting circuits in Japan. For ten years he dominates until news from America poisons his reputation. There is an unprecedented spread of homicides, unquenched, and unyielding. It’s an epidemic among the rich and famous, and the victims are their own families – their wives, their girlfriends, their fiancées, their children, nieces, their peers, and/or colleagues. You might notice, most of the victims are female. There is a reason for that.

But what gets to the Japanese, more than anything else, and Trent, too, is that every time a murder is committed, the murderer is acquitted. There is no justice. The general populace in Japan becomes suspicious of anything American. And after a particularly brutal fight against a contestant from China, he is banned from competing in the circuit and reviled. He doesn't like that and decides to do something about it. He goes home to make things right. But he’s in for a few surprises. Some are pleasant…many aren’t.