The following scripts were written in 2013-2014, before the World Trade Protocol (WTP) Series. During the gap years between 2015 and 2025, the author was still working full-time as an information management professional and was developing ideas that became The Recruiter, the first book in the WTP Series.
These scripts will expire in 2027, when the last book in the WTP series is expected to be released. They will be re-released in novel formats, with slight changes to the characters and plots.
The Sam Murphy Saga is a story of a man’s journey to self-discovery. Set in Australia in the 20th century, it spans two generations of the Murphy family. Here are brief teasers for each part.
Darwin, Northern Territory, 1931. Sam Murphy is adopted by a Chinese Australian family after his father’s tragic death in a bar fight. Learning to speak and write in Chinese, Sam also discovers gambling. Arriving in Sydney, he stumbles upon the gambling dens of Sydney’s Chinatown, where he befriends a club owner, a senior member of a Chinese criminal gang, who becomes his mentor. Forced to leave Sydney after an incident with a corrupt police officer, Sam is sent to the frontline in the Korean War. He finds a letter written by a dead Chinese soldier while trying to escape from his Chinese captors. The sentiment in the letter inspires Sam’s eventual salvation, which leads to his return to Sydney’s Chinatown.
Sydney, 1970s. Sam Murphy returns to his old haunts in Sydney’s Chinatown to honour his mentor and former employer, the gambler Ka-Ming, who has passed on. Meeting his former associates from his gambling past gets him entangled in the complex world of Chinese Triad gangs. Becoming a suspect in the murder of the gangster who took over Ka-Ming’s club, he is pulled into a confrontation with a Triad gang leader. The ending brings a surprise for Sam that reconnects him to his father.
Darwin, 1975. Cyclone Tracy turns Sam Murphy’s life around as his family faces a tragic turn. The tragedy drives his desire to seek the truth about his parents. His father’s story reveal the sad circumstances about his mother, who passed when Sam was a baby. When his gambling club associate is murdered by his nemesis as an act of revenge, Sam realises that he is the next target. Taking the initiative, he travels to Hong Kong to seek out the Triad gang leader. For Sam, the ending stirs memories of his relationship with his father and how his unique journey started.