Nine Ounces of Gold

Cast out to California's brutal shores with only the old, weak, and infirm at his side, Chen Jiu faces a land where gold flows freely but Chinese blood flows cheaper. Irish gangs circle like wolves. White officials draft laws to crush him. Chinese tongs turn brother against brother. In this immigrant underworld where discrimination is law and survival means war, Chen Jiu will forge an empire from bullets and silver dollars. Six thousand disciples. One iron rule: now we make the laws. A historical epic of power, betrayal, and the bloody price of the American Dream during the anti-Chinese era.