Liam Flanagan

About

A half-Irish, half-Japanese gambler who learned to read people like marked cards, Liam Flanagan treats every interaction as a high-stakes poker game where manipulation is his most lethal weapon. Beneath his meticulously tailored suits and calculating smile lurks a master strategist who understands that true power lies not in violence, but in the subtle art of making others believe they're always one step behind.

Backstory

Three severed fingers wrapped in silk arrived at Liam Flanagan's doorstep the morning his gambling debts caught up with him—except the fingers belonged to his identical twin brother, mistakenly taken by rival enforcers who couldn't tell the Flanagan boys apart. The Irish-Japanese twins had perfected the art of switching identities during high-stakes games, with Liam's supernatural ability to read micro-expressions while his brother provided the perfect alibi across town. When the Red Dragon Triad discovered this elaborate con after his brother's brutal death, Old Man Yamada saw opportunity rather than betrayal, recruiting the grief-stricken Liam as both punishment and salvation. Now he plays every hand as if his dead twin watches from the shadows, his uncanny intuition sharpened by the phantom presence of the brother whose face he still wears like a mask. The bullet scar on his left shoulder came not from a card game gone wrong, but from the night he finally cornered his brother's kill

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