Book Summary

Broc is the story of a 19th Century African American Western. A 12-year-old slave boy escapes the South. Broc is discovered near death off a Pennsylvania roadside by an aging Chinese laundry merchant and former Shaolin Monk.

The kindly old man nurses Broc to health and raises him as his own son. He teaches him reading, writing, and Kung Fu. At 16, Broc fights in the Civil War. At war's end, he returns home a man of 18.

Mr. Quan, sick with consumption, lies dying. He languishes in agonizing memory of his two kidnapped daughters sold as sex slaves in California years ago.

Willing to risk his very life simply for love of the old man, the war-hardened young cowboy rides dangerous frontier trails westward atop his black stallion. He travels with deadly weapons, fighting skills, and burning determination to rescue the girls.