The Tao of Dr. Patel

About the Book

The Tao of Dr. Patel is a story of love, vengeance and self- discovery that takes place on the island of Okinawa. Dr. Patel´s school teaches a controversial doctrine of the dual nature of human emotions derived from ancient Indian and Taoist texts which anticipated modern theories of biological complexity.

Indira, one of Dr. Patel´s teachers, is loved by Capt. Rossetti, an American Marine who thinks he is a modern centurion bringing the Pax Americana to a lawless East and by a Japanese Zen Master who seeks revenge for the killing of his kinsman by Americans. A typhoon decides their fate.

About the Author

At 19 J.S.Duarte left Massachusetts to seek his fortune in California. He dropped out of college in his freshman year to serve four years in the U.S.Army. After leaving the army he founded, owned and operated a California import-export business which he eventually sold to Spalding. During his years of foreign bussiness travel, Duarte talked with business and religious leaders in Asia and learned that human emotions as revealed in Eastern religious traditions were not incompatible with Western scientific and religious bliefs. His book, “The Tao of Dr.Patel”, demonstrates this common humanity.