Synopsis:
Buck Cooper can’t remember when he became socially invisible—probably when he hit 300 pounds. Now he’s working a dead end job, getting no notice from his boss and no love from the cute secretary he pines for.
But when he gets shanghaied to Tokyo, all of that changes for the mild-mannered Buck—because this blond Texan is about to go sumo!
Peek inside the secret world of sumo, and cheer for Buck as he fights his way through the ranks— against bullies of incredible size—to win the heart of the girl he loves
Snippet 1:
Shadow Warrior
Buck Cooper
crouched into fighting stance. Nothing stood between him and his assailants but
his thin kimono and the bitter winter air. Night enveloped him, but the sodium
glow of the city streetlights hanging sparsely near the docks gave faint
outline to the three black-pajamaed henchmen sent to do him bodily harm.
Buck’s
folds of flesh shook like a gelatin on his mother’s holiday table back home—not
so much from fear, but from the winter night. These trained fighters’ eyes pierced
the night in steely hatred of him, and Buck wondered again whose money they
accepted in exchange for this assault under night’s blanket of secrecy; which
of his many recently-amassed enemies felt strongly enough about his demise to
resort to this?
The tallest
of the three advanced first. Buck knew from stories bandied about the stable that
these kinds of hits almost always came orchestrated by the Japanese
underground, the yakuza. Surrounded
by the towering steel freight containers that slid in and soared upward, his
world was this alley. Buck had never fought three men at once, except in days
on the playground in Texas when bullies ganged up on him almost twenty years
ago. If what he did then could even be called fighting. Certainly he had never
triumphed in a three on one battle.
A gust of icy air made his throat
constrict. The first hitman circled him at a short distance, and Buck rotated
to keep him in sight, even though it meant turning his back on the other two.
Puffs of exhaled steam hung momentarily
in the freezing air.
With
blinding speed the first assailant attacked, and Buck struck out a hand in
hopes of catching him by the throat. The impact seared through his shoulder. Protecting
his own life was going to be more brutal than he imagined.
About the Author:
Jennifer Griffith is a wife and a mother of five, and
although she’s never seen a Jennifer Griffith is a wife and a mother of five,
and writes all manner of romantic comedy--her husband supplies the romance, and
the kids supply the comedy. She lives in Arizona now, but in college she lived
in Japan for almost two years. At 5'1" tall, she never once sumo wrestled.
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