The Dark Legend of the Foreigner

by Frank Destefano

In 17th century Japan, a battle between the shoguns and the Lees raged for a lengthy period of time. The shoguns wanted the Lees to come join their elite army, but the Lees remained neutral and peaceful people. After much harassing, the husband and wife became supreme warriors. The Lees began killing whatever shoguns threatened them. After a particularly violent, gruesome battle with the shoguns, the Lees disappeared into the Oakla Mountains for about twenty years . The mastermind, an ancient wizard siding with the shoguns, commanded what was left of the shoguns to patrol the mountains of Oakla trying to find the Lees. Decades would pass. In those twenty long years, the Lees raised a son who would become known as “the Master.” Phenomenal genetics would breed an individual who became a far better warrior and stronger fighter then both of his parents put together. In the Master’s infantile years, the mother and father went up on the mountains of Oakla, similar to Moses’ summoning of God, where they asked their God for a sacrifice. He answered, and in return of this sacrifice, he would give their extraordinary son, the Master, the power of immortality in the form of Five Scrolls of Terror. Their God asked for the skin from their baby’s head, a threatening request, but would ultimately create a child who would grow into that of the the Skulled Warrior. As the Lees returned from Oakla on that twentieth or so year, they got ambushed and killed—an attack decades in the making. When the Master found the bodies of his parents, he naturally flew into a blind rage and killed many shoguns, slaughtering anyone who stood in his way. As he battled on Oakla Mountain, his scrolls disappeared off the mountain and were never seen again. As the Master went to the end of Oakla searching for the ancient wizard for retribution, he came across an ancient hut, and inevitably the wizard and the Master did battle. The Master would ultimately kill the wizard, but he would put a curse on the Master that would remain with the Master for nearly four hundred years. As the Master’s statue, which in reality was the curse turning him to stone, was moved by cult followers and believers, it eventually found its way to New Amsterdam, which as we know, would evolve into present-day New York City. An adventure unfolds as the Master awakens after a four-hundred-year slumber, masked as a mysterious piece of art, to deal with our current world as we know it. And so begins The Dark Legend of The Foreigner.

234 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2014

About the author

I am an Independent Author of the Book Series The Dark Legend of The Foreigner.I have always loved movies and used those elements in my stories.I live on Long Island and enjoy watching Baseball,Football. I'm Looking to get this Series off the ground running and this has been a dream of mine for years.

Reviews

[Δημήτριος Καραγιάννης · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not a work of literary standards. It is filled with grammatical and syntactical errors, it is hard to follow the meaning of many sentences and paragraphs, and the narrative is simple, mundane and feels like the effort of a high school student. I would not recommend this book.

[Jenn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really wanted to enjoy this book. Repetitive words, sentences that makes no sense and extremely poor character creation. It is like if someone took this story, ran it through Google translate (in another language) and ran it back through Google translate (in English)and this is the finale product. I am not sure if he had a editor but if he did and he was able to apply their feedback, this book could be amazing.
The cover is great but it is not enough to save this book.

[Douglas Meeks · Rating 1 out of 5]

The Dark Legend of the Foreigner might be a great story but it reads like it was originally in some other language and suffered a really poor interpretation to English to the point you have no idea of the plot of where the story is going sadly. I tried for several chapters and finally just gave up since I got more out of the synopsis than I did out of the actual book.

[Michael Ash · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good start to a series.

It takes a couple chapters to get into the setting. That the ground work to epic tale is being laid. The details at the start matter as they are used later. Good value for the money.