The refugees, she sensed, would shake him. There was something there in him to change.'Pavel Morrow, a man with a troubled past, arrives in Malaysia to deceive Li, a young woman committed to humanitarian causes. He is profoundly influenced by her and begins to adopt her agenda. Now he has a dilemma, because his task was to track down her father, an alleged spy from Singapore. Can he change sufficiently to stay on her side? The story tracks this dilemma as they travel across the region.