Saint Anne

Saint Anne opens on Bastille Day, a steaming hot July afternoon in New York City. A freak accident in Manhattan sets in motion a bizarre series of events driven by ambition, passion and, above all, revenge. Saint Anne is a post-modern family saga narrated by Gideon Harvey, who was born on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Murder and conspiracy are the Harvey family legacies. Black humor and high camp weave through the story which is set in downtown New York where the Chinese Triads smuggle illegal immigrants into America and the Mafia controls the unions.

This fast-paced thriller follows the musical career of the Harvey Trio who played the small-time nightclub circuit in Asia until they hit the big time in the Chinese Triad crime business. Saint Anne remains unhappy with her new life. Her Vietnamese mother had been a singer in Saigon. And Saint Anne has made a pact with the forces of evil to achieve fame, no matter what the cost-to herself, to her family, or to anyone else who blocks her path to stardom.

Asia Books (1994), 302 pp.