American Dream in Ashes

He was promised Disneyland.He got deportation

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.

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.

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

You'll witness:
- The exact moment a child decides to become the strongest thing left
- A best friend who trades a brother for 75% of a cocaine shipment
- A father who sacrificed everything-only to doom his family worse
- The night an eight-year-old chooses his mother's survival over his father's voice

This is not an immigrant success story.
This is the autopsy of the American Dream-performed with a rusty scalpel and written in blood.

★★★★★ "I cried on a plane, then couldn't sleep for three days.
★★★★★ "Raw, brutal, unforgettable. Like The Godfather reborn in Koreatown."

Genres: Asian-American Literature - Crime Thriller - Coming-of-Age - Organized Crime - Immigrant Saga - Family Betrayal - Korean-American Fiction - Dark Psychological Drama

Content warnings: graphic violence, child abuse, organ trafficking, gang violence, deportation, strong language, drug trade.

One jade core. Four betrayals. Twenty years of ashes.
The descent begins now.