Alexei Guliyev, a former Soviet Spetsnaz officer, is tempted out of his Caribbean retirement with a lucrative assignment in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar, to infiltrate and destroy the organization of a Russian international weapons trafficker. Behind the assignment is a U.S. security company with links to the C.I.A. Trawling the nightspots of Bangkok, underworld contacts bring him to the attention of his target Igor Nizienko. Gaining Nizienko's confidence, he organises an attack on a Burmese army unit to capture the colonel who is disrupting arms supplies to local rebels. With the on-going expansion of Nizienko's arms deals, supplying the Taliban and the Free Syrian Army; Alexei joins a covert U.N. led assault on the temple complex to capture the vast weapons cache. The plot based on factual data gives a fascinating insight into the remote and dangerous world of the illegal arms trade in Southeast Asia.