Jun Policarpio

Carmela Vendetta Returns Jun Policarpio

From #1 Amazon Bestselling Author in Immigration and Business Law - Jun Policarpio weaves a fast-paced page-turner, roughly BASED ON A TRUE STORY."Carmela Vendetta Returns" is a short thriller about a young 13-year old girl whose first encounter with crime is her abduction by a violent gang of 5 drug pushers about to rape her. Orphaned at 8 years old and raised by her sickly grandmother, Maria Carmela - grows up in an urban jungle where the law is survival of the fittest. Though she is a poor, innocent school girl who lives on a hand-to-mouth existence in a slum district of Manila, Philippines, her advantages are her athleticism, beauty and brains. Several years before he dies, her grandfather trains Carmela in the Filipino Martial Arts called Pekiti Tirsia, the Art of Stick-fighting. Hours before she competes as the Philippine representative at the World's High School Spelling Bee Contest in Washington, D. C., Carmela - alongside her reluctant grandmother - absconds and overstays her visa to pursue a professional career in Martial Arts. A Filipino at heart, Carmela - now living in the U. S. - familiarizes herself with the graft, corruption and crime stories in her homeland, the Philippines, by devouring every news item she can find. One crime report catches her interest to the point that she is compelled to return to the Philippines upon learning that the victim of a brutal rape-murder is a young girl named Carmela, her namesake. Knowing one kind of justice taught by the law of the jungle during her upbringing, she carefully plans an operation to impose her own justice toward the culprits who were acquitted by the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Follow Carmela's stealth expedition to Manila wherein her all-consuming purpose is to mete out justice, her way. Get this book today...and buy one each for all your Filipino friends, peers and family members. It is the FIRST Filipino Crime Thriller ever written and published on the Amazon platform!!