Linda Shing

A reclusive woodsman stumbles into a relationship with a young Chinese ex-slave, but the thread of knowledge that binds them together is also a crime for which the woodsman is wanted.

PI Joe Wong is one of the best in the business, operating from his base in San Francisco. One day a woman walks into Wong's office and asks for his help. She needs him to find her missing husband Aldo. This takes Wong on a journey though the world of the criminal. Along the way he encounters a father and son team of Solomon and Bones. Wong ends up getting involved in a gang was between Malcolm Boyd and Aldo, the man he was supposed to be looking for

Retreating to Cambodia after a failed relationship, American Thomas McIntrye becomes immersed in Cambodia's dangerous and pervasive sex trade. There he falls in love with a woman who helps him to regain his dignity.