If you told me back then that delivering newspapers would get me involved with illegal drugs, gruesome murders, the police, and even the President of the United States, I would have laughed at you. But that's exactly what happened to me. And being a paperboy was the reason . . ." So begins fourteen-year-old Minh Li's wildest adventure. Living in a Hartford housing project, a dead-end world of grime and crime, the Vietnamese-American teenager wishes he could be like his idol Bruce Lee, the Golden Dragon himself. Like his hero, Minh was born in the Year of the Dragon, but he soon learns that the spirit of the great martial arts master is all he needs when his own quiet world is struck by violence and murder. Life starts getting dangerous for him and suddenly he has no choice -- he has to act!