The Palace of Firebirds () is a 2016 book, by Tymo Lin (Chinese: 提子墨), This is a mystery and love story spanning half a century. From the modern computer age back to those years when thousands upon thousands of US Armed Forces from the Vietnam War were taking R&R in Taiwan.
The story follows four young people in Taiwan: a former IT management director who becomes a telemarketer, a romance novelist, a former celebrity, and a scammer, whose paths come together during a journey across the island.
Their lives have intersected with an advanced cancer patient "Ms. Hu" - known as "Christina", one of the first Jazz singers in Taipei’s American club back in 1966.
In search of the American Sergeant, "Ryan Jenkins", from San Francisco who disappeared and a long-lost mixed little boy, Oliver Hu-Jenkins, they started an "Oliver Mission" journey on a scrapped blood donation bus named "Phoenix".
The characters travel across Taiwan, from cities and counties in the north to an aboriginal tribal village in the south, searching for a missing boy named Oliver and a place called "The Palace of Firebirds."
On the journey, they use modern computing, networking, hacking, and cyber man hunting technologies to look for the boy who disappeared without a trace.
This novel is currently in circulation at the "San Francisco Public Library" in the states.
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