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Portions of COREAN DAWN and COREAN DUSK were published in 1984. All 1,300 plus pages of the original manuscript have been restored in COREAN DAWN, 770 pages, and COREAN DUSK, 660 pages. As the author seeks agent representation, COREAN DAWN is presented here free. It was written to be read. By all means download, and enjoy.
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"Seoul" Novel Exerpts (38 pages)
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-07-02 00:41:21 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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“Here’s to your part in the glory of empire,” said the tall old Korean with a white mustache, lifting a cup. He wore the uniform of a Japanese Army colonel.
But it was not the gold or coal mines of Manchuria, nor the trackless swamps or the agriculture that had lured Yi In Gak to Manchuria, but rather the lucrative mining of humans.
“It’s just a matter of shedding blood, of a willingness to take life, and inflict pain,” remarked the thirty-year-old Korean bounty hunter who had made a comfortable living turning in his own people since his days at the Chunchon Middle School in Kangwon
Province.
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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Corean Dusk Excerpts (34 pages)
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-04-17 15:32:11 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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At mid-morning on Sunday, irritably sipping coffee on the porch of his home, he spotted Kwan Il, Pak, Mun and three posang walking rapidly towards him from a shed and he knew from the compradore’s expression that something was terribly amiss.
The young north Corean remained silent until he was three steps away.
“What’s wrong, Crane?”
“There was a man at the settlement gates a few minutes ago, who left a message,” said Kwan Il, his voice low and troubled. “When he finished, he quickly fled into the city before we could seize him. He told our sentry that sama-nim has been kidnapped. He said in four days, they will begin to cut at her daily, that she will die badly if they are not paid three hundred thousand silver dollars. We are to await word on how, when and to where to deliver such payment. And, if we try to find her, they threaten to kill her instantly, and provide you with certain parts of her body.”
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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Corean Dawn Excerpts (13 pages)
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-01-07 10:57:34 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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‘Iii-gu! Demons dance on the ground at my very feet,’ thought the prefect. ‘Or perhaps it’s the ghosts of countless ancestors, stirring in their tombs wailing at him and the contaminating approach of other barbarians.’
‘ Unthinkable to defy a mandate of Chaoshien, but also unwise to alienate the powerful Japanese firms who so generously slip me bribes not to see the contraband they themselves smuggle into our country,’ thought the prefect. ‘Even more than this foreboding warship in our harbor, assignment here of this ill-thought out ward of the kingdom is gunpowder with a smoking fuse! What if the Western savages about to land grow angry at the presence of this outcast? How do I quickly return him to the Seoul bureaucrats who inflicted this dog upon me?’
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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"Corean Dawn" novel synopsis
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-01-06 22:17:10 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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A monumental story of a Westerner’s search for belonging as the Yi Dynasty struggles for survival! One man pits his will against kingdom upheavals as international clashes set the stage for this ambitious novel of Korea as explosive, fast-paced events sweep and are driven by a colorful cast of larger-than-life characters. Looming near and often in them is Timothy Tubert, an orphaned American youth stranded during battle in Chaoshien, the old Corea of the Yi Dynasty. At times by choice and at times by fate, Tubert's struggles to find meaning and a place for himself marks a new chapter in epic English language novels about the orient. By royal decree, this unique Westerner is declared to be a sovereign, untouchable state onto himself. Rarely does a book of any era in any language so powerfully span the gamut of and intercultural human spirit and emotions. Ignorance, innocence, murder, sex, greed, hope and fear, treachery and tragedy all intertwine to make this a monumental adventure story told against a background of a tottering dynasty trying to hold treaty powers at bay. Here is a story of violent Chinese, deadly Japanese, well-intentioned missionaries, ruthless smugglers, intriguing Coreans, courageous tiger hunters, an exotic black mistress and the beautiful Corean girl who becomes the wife of a foreign devil, all stampeding at once in a towering pageant of life. This is a bawdy, stirring, fictionalized saga of Chaoshien, old Corea, a fascinating land the world would pay dearly for not knowing about decades later and a land which today enchants international travelers and threatens the international community.
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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"Corean Dusk" novel synopsis
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-01-06 22:15:54 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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Butch Wehry continues his majestic saga of Korea with the characters from COREA DAWN in COREA DUSK, adding new characters encountering the thrill and mysticism and intrigues of the old Kingdom as Timothy Tubert, at the request of the royal couple, accompanies forces south to put down the Tonghak rebellion during the Sino-Corean War. Readers are present when the Corean queen is slaughtered and accompany him by the king’s request to the Japanese-Russo War in Pyongyang at last settles foreign supremacy that causes the end of the 500 year-old dynasty and the loss of Tubert’s beloved trading station in Inchon. They accompany him as he transports supplies to his new home at the American concession operated gold mines in North Corea and the heartbreak of his Corean wife being bayoneted by Japanese during a peaceful protest march. After nearly half a century in Corea, after foreign powers leave and the Japanese burn the United States treaty with Chaoshien, a near-broken Tubert is about to leave on a steamer when an old voice, his old friend Pak, calls to him. They disappear into the northern mountains of their youth to fight the Japanese occupation and takeover as the old dynasty and land are annexed as a Japanese province. This novel is more violent than the first.
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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"Seoul" novel synopsis
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-01-06 22:13:20 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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For anyone who has experienced Korea in this century, Whalen M. Wehry's book SEOUL, A Novel of Korea, may be a part of you. The work is the former Pacific Stars and Stripes Korea News Bureau chief's third historical novel of Korea.
SEOUL transcends the differences of race and cultures.
The cross-cultural story is about cultures, armies and personalities clashing in the poignant and often brutal rites of passage that preceded today's international multi-ethnic diversity. From the arrival of Americans to repatriate the defeated legions of Japan, down the peninsula with the invading Soviets in the north, to the Chinese human waves hurling themselves into the UN forces of the Korean War, the author of COREAN DAWN and COREAN DUSK has exquisitely textured blend of human earthiness and savagery, noble deeds and emotions, hope, despair, violence and rebirth in an East-meets-West saga. With a complex international cast of strong-willed soldiers, resourceful thieves, scheming pimps, spies, vicious bigots, heroes and villains, SEOUL is woven with the richness of exotic cultures and driven by the aims, needs and miscommunications of its characters, world powers and fate itself.
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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Corean Dawn (Four parts)
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Posted by kadmin on: 2007-01-03 00:58:42 in category: General [ Print | 0 Comment(s) ]
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News Source: Whalen Wehry
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