
Tom Lin – The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
In Tom Lin’s The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, orphan Ming Tsu the child of Chines immigrants is raised by the leader of a California crime syndicate who trains him to be a deadly enforcer. Ming then falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and when they elope he seizes the opportunity for a different life. Ada is soon kidnapped in a violent raid and Ming is conscripted into service for the Central Pacific Railroad. Broken-heart yet defiant, Ming joins forces with blind clairvoyant and they set out to reduce his wife and exact revenge with help from a troupe of magic-show performers with supernatural powers along the way.