BLACK SALT

Eighteen years ago in Japan, Kali murders his Chinese lover Mei and escapes into the Yakuza underworld. Yu Bai Shek loses Kali’s trail in Tokyo and instead locates Mei’s young daughter Huan Li. Together, they encounter a young African American boy and his mother just as they’re assaulted by the Yakuza. The Shaolin master saves the boy, but the mother tragically dies from an accidental knife stab to the heart. Filled with compassion, Master Yu Bai Shek resolves to raise and train the newly orphaned boy along with Huan Li. The boy’s name is Samuel Lincoln Tharpe. Fast-forward to the present day. Now working for the CIA, Sam’s team discovers the Russian mafia slain near the tsunami-ravaged coast of Japan and clashes with a group of Yakuza led by the evil master’s son Zentaro. After suffering devastating casualties, Sam recovers a mysterious device known only as the Exterminatus. Huan Li begins shadowing Sam in Tokyo. They had parted ways many years ago, but now she’s part of a small sect of Shaolin dedicated to stopping Kali. Their investigations cause them to cross paths. Huan Li gives Sam and the CIA new intelligence regarding the mysterious device. Her people have learned that the Exterminatus is the Holy Grail of terrorism. It’s a biological WMD carrying a retro-virus capable of something no disease in history is capable of…genetically discriminating between ethnic groups and wiping them out. Her intelligence sources say the creators of this weapon simply call themselves The Makers. Now that Sam and Huan Li have joined forces again, the fate of the world is in their hands.