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Shadow of the Dragon is a 1993 book written by Sherry Garland. It chronicles Danny Vo and Nguyen Sang Le, two ethnic Vietnamese living in Houston; Danny is Americanized while Sang Le has difficulty adjusting to American culture and society.

The main character is Danny Vo or Vo Van Duong, a Vietnamese American living in Houston; he left Vietnam at age 6. His family is hosting a homecoming party for his eighteen-year-old cousin Sang Le, who was sentenced in a re-education camp, or prison, in Vietnam for many years. Sang Le was a refugee in Hong Kong before arriving in Houston.

At the party, Sang Le meets a beautiful girl named Hong (meaning "Rose"; whom Danny rescued from the Cobras, a toan du dang (the Vietnamese name for a gang at the market)), and immediately falls in love with her while Hong sees Danny and falls in love with him. However, Danny already has a crush, an American girl named Tiffany Marie Schultz.