John Harwich, an American expat living in Chiang Mai, is on Koh Samui for relaxation after deadly times in the Golden Triangle and Cambodia. He'll just hang out at the beach and relax, right? Wrong. The Vietnam vet gets challenged by an Australian expat into going to Singapore and then the Philippines aboard a Chinese junk loaded with Chinese antiquities that has just sailed down from Hong Kong. Harwich only agrees because three American girls are also on the junk and it's their very first trip to Asia. He soon finds himself on an island dealing with human taffickers, pirates and a gladiatorial game where "contestants" are filmed for video sales as they are slaughtered. Either Harwich goes to war with this system or he and the girls will be killed once their "entertainment value" is gone.