Kimo Silva, Honolulu's incoming mayor, inherits a city that faces hard times. Economic decline, Asian conflict, and internal ethnic strife threaten to unravel the Aloha Spirit that keeps Honolulu's diverse population at peace. His own son, Luke, becomes a victim of ethnic intolerance when he is "hijacked" and threatened on his way to school. A series of related confrontations and crimes divides Honolulu's ethnic groups and enflames people who feel victimized by social forces they cannot control. Honolulu has been a model city for ethnic tranquility for decades, but Kimo knows that the peace Honolulu enjoys is both fragile and critical. He is determined to preserve Honolulu's Aloha Spirit. But what can he do to reverse the trend? And what must he sacrifice in order to do it?
About the Author: About A K Gunn: A K Gunn's writing benefits from a diversity of experience. He is a surgeon, an educator, a military officer, a hospital administrator, a scientist, and a world traveler. His publications include newspaper articles, textbook chapters, scientific research, short stories, and novels. He has published four prior novels, A Tale of Two Planets, Red Exodus, and If Pigs Could Cry, published under the nom de plume Alain Gunn, and The Honey Bee, under the nom de plume A K Gunn. He also contributed a short story to Mystery in Paradise: 13 Tales of Suspense and Intrigue. He did residency training as an orthopaedic surgeon in Honolulu, Hawaii, after earning a BS in physics from Yale University and an MD degree from Case Western Reserve University He served in the US Army for over twenty years, including service during the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, and achieved the rank of Colonel. Following his military career, he was Chief Surgeon and chief of the medical staff at a hospital in Honolulu, seeing patients clinically as a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon. This hospital served patients throughout the Pacific basin, including Micronesia, Polynesia, and Fiji. For his work, he was named an Honorary Ambassador by the Governor of Guam, and was commended by the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. He has taught as a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in Hawaii and Texas, and has lectured or worked in over thirty-five countries, on all the inhabited continents. He serves on the editorial board of one prominent orthopaedic journal, reviews submissions to two others, and is author or co-author of more than forty-five scientific articles published in orthopaedic surgery or genetic journals. He was born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio, and currently lives in Honolulu. He is married and has three children. Hobbies include scuba diving, underwater photography, ocean kayaking, playing banjo in a jazz band, and singing in a choir. For further information, see his web site at www.alaingunn.com.