Hang Neck Ridge chronicles the global journey of American Curtiss Bradley that takes readers on an inspiring adventure around the world and across the spectrum of the human spirit. At its heart, Hang Neck Ridge is a coming-of-age story, but it's also a thriller, a love story, and a vivid work of historical fiction spanning a decade and a half, and half the globe. The only child of a Doolittle Raider, orphaned then weaned at the Milton Hershey School for Orphaned Boys, Curtiss comes of age on Wall Street's fast track during America's roaring 1980s. That is until a love obsession with an enchanting foreign student draws Curtiss into the exotic and often bizarre subcultures of Asia. Readers join Curtiss on a rollercoaster ride toward manhood, from impulsively throwing aside his well-planned life in NYC to follow his exotic lover back to Asia in a doomed attempt to stop her arranged marriage, to going off the rails in Taiwan and Hong Kong's wild underworld, to a soul-searching discovery of the real China while hiding out deep in the pastoral rural Mainland, to ultimately being drawn into the Far East intelligence community in service to his country. Hang Neck Ridge is at ground zero for many of the pivotal events that touched off forces still driving us today, whether it is being embroiled in Wall Street's 80s junk bond debacle, experiencing the 89 Tiananmen Square massacre first hand, or being thrust to the front lines of America's war on terror. Introducing authentic, unique and diverse characters-all based on actual people-Allen's work bridges cultures, generations and even life philosophies, with profound conflicts adding a mesmerizing blend of colors. And, after immersing in intense first-hand accounts of real-life tragedy and triumph, readers will never look at humanity, or their own culture, in quite the same way again.