DANGEROUS DAYS for Dragon Dancer Vigilantes
Desmond Kamakura turns heads in Tokyo. He speaks and bows and does everything in a very Japanese way, but he is much taller than most Japanese, much more handsome, and very black. That’s because he is an adopted African who has been brought up with Maggie, the Kamakuras‘ real daughter, and no siblings have ever loved each other more or got along better.
Des and Maggie excel in martial arts. Also, they love ballroom dancing and it’s a joy to watch them move on the floor.
Des and Maggie are sent to college in America. They become fully westernized.
On their return, while out watching their favorite fighter, Japan’s greatest celebrity, the African-American kick boxer, Bob Sap, the Yakuza break into the Kamakura home, kill Mrs. Kamakura and torture him to get information which he doesn’t have.
When Des and Maggie come home they are devastated. With his dying words, Kamakura asks them to avenge him. They do so in spades.
They keep up a front as dancers, but in the dark of night they operate in a deadly manner, thus gaining the reputation as the Dragon Dancer Vigilantes. Ito, the top bad guy whom they have identified, not only keeps eluding them but does his best to have them killed.
They settle in Toronto where they can blend in and then they follow leads that take them to hair raising adventures in San Francisco, New York, Mumbai and the African village where Kamakura had found Desmond as a starving orphan. Here Desmond gets the man who killed his real parents. It’s very gratifying.
The book is an adaptation from the screenplay, “Dangerous Days” which is in development as a film.
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