Hell Scrolls

by J. Charles Sterin

Following the brutal murder of his Chinese lover, successful filmmaker Carl Benjamin is drawn into the dark world of espionage and Chinese organized crime Triads - and down the rabbit hole of history as he struggles to understand the secret past of his father who served in China and was recruited in 1949 by the Israeli Mossad. Carl and close friend and former special forces officer Clarence Washington are soon joined by the beautiful daughter of his father's old Mossad controller. They're chased across Europe and Southeast Asia by the sexually perverted daughter of the most powerful Triad leader, by the CIA, and by the unfinished legacies of their fathers, and use the coded messages within a set of Chinese Hell Scrolls to gain a tenuous upper hand. Filled with intrigue, action, and explicit sexual encounters - rooted in 35 years of wars and criminal power-plays - Hell Scrolls delivers everything fans of history-rooted thrillers want.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 8, 2013

About the author

J. Charles Sterin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative television journalist, author and screenwriter. Over the course of his 40 year career Sterin has produced over 60 hours of television documentaries, including episodes of A&E Network's primetime series Investigative Reports an Ancient Mysteries, and documentary specials aired on PBS. Sterin is the author of the popular undergraduate textbook "Mass Media Revolution" (Pearson Education), and the history-based thriller "Hell Scrolls"(Connected Editions). Sterin co-produced a national media project with 10 of the world's leading humanist thinkers (including anthropologist Margaret Mead, psychologist Carl Rogers, an anthropologist Ashley Montague) and was selected by the Poynter Institute to produce its seminal PBS documentary series NewsLeaders on the leading figures of American news media. He was the co-author, along with Richard Shames,M.D., of the trend-setting late 1970s holistic health primer "Healing With Mind power" (Rodale Press) and numerous holistic health articles published in Rodale's health and women's magazines.