Lotus Eater

Southeast Asia. Late-1970s. Narcotics agent, Eric Ketch, tracks down a source of heroin that mysteriously turns up in the States. The U.S. authorities thought they had shut down that supply chain after the American withdrawal from Vietnam. But they were wrong. Ketch chases down the killers of the first agent sent to Asia as well as exotically beautiful women in Hong Kong and Thailand, but finds that things are not what they seem. This international thriller not only details the drug trade in Southeast Asia and the politics of poppies, but also the Asian gangster organization known as the Triads. Written with the authenticity of a journalist who did his own chasing around Southeast Asia. NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED