Scorpio On the Dragon's Demise

"China is a sleeping Dragon - let her sleep" is a saying attributed to the ever prescient Napoleon, though one cannot find the saying amongst the Emperor's judgments. True or not the dragon is now certainly awake and China, vast, mysterious and potentially all-powerful is the background to Scorpio's most recent adventure. Essentially this is the story of how he located two relatives living in an obscure village in the extreme south of China and managed to bring them safely to Malaysia despite all the difficulties and dangers of an epic escape. But as background of the story is his impressions of a China exhausted by the charmingly named 'Cultural Revolution' in the course of which two million people were butchered by the barbaric Red Guards and a total of twenty million died due to the virtual collapse of the economy and the disease and famine that spread across the country. It was a world almost beyond the imagination of western civilized man. Only in China could these ghastly events have occurred and only China could have recovered as comparatively quickly as it did. During and after the Cultural Revolution Scorpio had been promoted to Senior Assistant Commissioner and was in charge of the Communist Affairs division at Federal Special Branch Headquarters. His duties include organizing the briefing and debriefing of visitors to China and when he learned that a Malaysian Trade Mission was to pay an extended visit to China he managed to get himself included in it, suitably dusguised as an official in the Ministry of Primary Industries. Before leaving he was asked by his father to trace his relatives in South China and a Commonwealth liaison officer asked him to try and find a 'mole' with whom his Embassy in Beijing had lost contact.

Author: Leong Chee Woh
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Press
Published: 03/09/2015
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780996150149

About the Author
Datuk Dr Leong Chee Woh joined the Malayan Police Force on 1 December 1950, during the British colonial period as a probationary Police inspector. After a short stint in the para military police jungle company and the police field force, in 1953 he was posted to Special Branch. He remained with Special Branch until his retirement in 1984 with the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police. His final post was as the Deputy Director (Operations) of Special Branch. Within Special Branch, the principal intelligence collection agency of the country, he served in most of the states of the Malay Peninsula as well as Sarawak and short stints in southern Thailand and Indonesia. He served throughout the First (1948-1960) and Second (1970-1991) Emergencies, as the communist insurgency was called; for a third of a century he was actively engaged in anti-communist campaigns in both jungle and urban areas. As an operational strategist he supported and ultimately led specific and sustained campaigns that resulted in the death or capture of large numbers of armed and subversive communist elements seeking to overthrow the government through force of arms. For his many successes and his constant devotion to duty he was decorated on ten occasions: nine for meritorious service and one for gallantry. Among his meritorious service awards is one from the King of Thailand. Of his additional fourteen departmental commendations and citations, one is from the late Prime Minister of Malaysia; three others are from the Commander of the 4th Division of the Malaysian Army; the Commander of the 1st American Special Forces; and the Commander of the 28th Commonwealth Brigade.

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