"Noelle thought she would have noticed him even if he hadn't driven his Packard through the front bar of the Hotel Constellation."
Laos, 1959
Vientiane is a sleepy post-colonial backwater, run by the army and at war with the communist Pathet Lao in the north. Corsican gangsters, left behind after the French departure five years before, run the opium trade, flying raw opium out of the mountains to Bangkok and Saigon.
The most celebrated of the milieu is Rocco Bonaventure, cursed with a daughter who turns heads everywhere she goes.
Baptiste Crocé is kind of man her father has always warned her about - a handsome and womanising pilot with his eye on the main chance. He is willing to do anything, anything, to get what he wants.
Their affair will change all their lives forever.
For Baptiste, flying a flimsy Cessna through heavy anti-aircraft fire, is just the beginning. He sees beyond the filthy opium dens to a day when the drug will help him rule the world.
From the mountainous jungles and blazing poppy fields of Indochina jungles of the Golden Triangle to the tenements of colonial Hong Kong, from wartime Saigon to the Chinatown of San Francisco, romance and horror collide in a stunning novel of passion and greed and breath-taking action, spanning four turbulent decades.

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• Publication Date: October 18, 2011
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 424 Pages
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