The Gates of Exquisite View

'I welcome you through the Gates of Exquisite View' - a phrase carved above the entrance to the torture-chamber of executioner Lai Chun-Ch'en. To save his life Mat Young must tell his inquisitors the secret of Apogee - a fifth generation supercomputer. But it is a secret he does not possess. Mat is caught in Red China's deadly ambitions to take back Taiwan by force. As is Simon Young his tai-pan father, and Mat's lover, one of Taiwan's most glamorous actresses...