American Dream in Ashes

<p>He was promised Disneyland.He got deportation</p><p>Seoul 1991. A steel empire burns. A father vanishes. A mother sells her kidney so her six-year-old son won't be sold overseas. A grandmother's skull is shattered against concrete while the boy watches.</p><p>Los Angeles 2005. On his twentieth birthday Michael Kim is handcuffed at LAX and forced onto a one-way flight back to a motherland that no longer exists-carrying nothing but a jade necklace forged in his family's first furnace and a rage cold enough to freeze the Pacific.</p><p>American Dream in Ashes: The Descent is the explosive first book in a five-part Korean-American crime saga that readers are calling the Korean Scarface and Parasite meets Breaking Bad in K-Town</p><p>You'll witness:<br>• The exact moment a child decides to become the strongest thing left<br>• A best friend who trades a brother for 75% of a cocaine shipment<br>• A father who sacrificed everything-only to doom his family worse<br>• The night an eight-year-old chooses his mother's survival over his father's voice</p><p>This is not an immigrant success story.<br>This is the autopsy of the American Dream-performed with a rusty scalpel and written in blood.</p><p>★★★★★ I cried on a plane then couldn't sleep for three days.<br>★★★★★ Raw brutal unforgettable. Like The Godfather reborn in Koreatown.</p><p> </p><p>Genres: Asian-American Literature • Crime Thriller • Coming-of-Age • Organized Crime • Immigrant Saga • Family Betrayal • Korean-American Fiction • Dark Psychological Drama</p></p><p>Content warnings: graphic violence child abuse organ trafficking gang violence deportation strong language drug trade.</p><p> </p><p>One jade core. Four betrayals. Twenty years of ashes.<br>The descent begins now.</p>