Dan Docherty

Wild Colonial Boy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This autobiographical novel narrates the journey of Dan Docherty, a young Glasgow law graduate and karate black belt, who left his traditional Catholic family in 1975 to serve in the notoriously corrupt Royal Hong Kong Police.In Hong Kong, he learned Chinese language intensively, then drill, musketry and law. A famous Tai Chi master accepted him as a disciple and trained him to become an international full contact champion.In this book we'll have a few beers with colourful characters like Big Don and Mountie Dave. We'll visit exotic locales-Manila, Macao, Singapore... We'll witness Dan in full contact competition and in street fight action. As they say in the Hong Kong Police, "e;If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781528991971
• Artikelnr.: 62728249

Autorenporträt

In 1975, Dan Docherty, a young Scots law graduate and karate black belt, left Glasgow to spend nine years as a Hong Kong police inspector. As well as serving as a detective and vice squad commander, he also took up Tai Chi and won the 5th Southeast Asian Chinese Full Contact Championships in Malaysia in 1980. In 1985, he was awarded a postgraduate diploma in Chinese from Ealing College. He travels extensively teaching Tai Chi and has written four books on the subject.