After meeting a beautiful Burmese girl in a Singapore karaoke bar, Justinian is convinced to help her rescue her two young brothers from a Burmese government labor camp. To obtain funding and support for his venture, he must first engineer the break-out from a Bangkok jail, the grandson of his backer who accused of being a drug mule. No mean feat by itself. Recruiting aid from several old CIA contacts, and with the assistance of a Chinese bodyguard and the girl, they begin their quest. Moving from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Bangkok, Thailand and finally into the jungles of Burma, the team travels by plane, car and eventually on foot. This snapshot of life in Southeast Asia, filled with crisis and intrigue, is contrasted with Kase's "simple" life in Chicago as a PI.About the Author: Mark T. Sondrini was born in Adams, Massachusetts, grew up in Speedway and Terre Haute, Indiana; lived in Columbus, Ohio; Hampton, Virginia; Fairburn, Georgia; the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois; Greenville, South Carolina and is currently retired in Ruskin, Florida. He studied electrical engineering at Rose Polytechnic Institute for two and one-half years before joining the U.S. Navy and serving on the USS Enterprise in the Gulf of Tonkin as a Data Systems Petty Officer. After the Navy, Mark graduated from The Ohio State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as a design engineer for several companies for nearly forty years before retiring to write professionally. Schooled by the Masters of Science Fiction, Mark has been reading everything he could get his hands on for sixty years and writing for twenty. He has written four Science Fiction novels and more than twenty-five Science Fiction short stories, two juvenile mystery novelettes, four adult mystery novels, four plays and has several novels and plays underway and in research. His hobbies consist of wood working, fused glass, watching movies, cooking, playing cards and Mah Jongg, and traveling with his wife Priscilla. mark.sondrini@gmail.com