Red Scorpion: Rising : February 2026
Sequel to Shores of Okinawa
In Red Scorpion: Rising, the thrilling sequel to his novel Shores of Okinawa, author Patrick Greenwood plunges Marine veteran Jack Kendall back into chaos. His hope for a new life with the enigmatic Li Cao is shattered when a revolutionary cryptocurrency project called Green Kyoto ignites a geopolitical firestorm, pushing China’s ambitious new President, Hai Ming, to the brink of invading Taiwan .
The entire Kendall family is caught in the crossfire. Daughter Regina is deputized to lead an FBI team hunting a Russian hacker in Okinawa, while son William becomes the target of Poppy Ledger, the unstable head of China's Cyber Forces, who unleashes brutal "Komodo" kill squads.
The war becomes intensely personal when Dimi Zosh, a ruthless ex-KGB officer, kidnaps Jack and Li Cao. Zosh, the man who murdered Li’s husband years ago, demands world-altering software keys as leverage. As superpowers clash, a clandestine NSA program—Red Scorpion—unleashes its deadliest asset: Hsu Thao (Codename: Red Scorpion One). An orphan trained from childhood to be an elite assassin, she is embedded in the most dangerous position of all: as the secret mistress to China’s new president. With invisible bombers in the sky and assassins in the shadows, the Kendalls must fight to survive a war where the lines between friend and foe are lethally blurred.
