Bite of the Lotus

New York. JFK Airport. Delta Flight 30. 'The Money Plane, ' taxis for take-off. Aboard, $300 million destined for the Russian Mafia controlled banks in Moscow. In the hold is a man who will steal it all. In Sydney a young girl straps explosive to her waist, set upon her own personal revenge. Set against the backdrop of the American Presidential race and global money laundering, this is the story of a father's relentless pursuit of a reason for his his daughter's kamikaze death. Ultimately, in a small fishing village in the Gulf of Tonkin, the truth is revealed. It is a sad but personal one. But by now the wheels of international violence have been set in motion and the political and banking ramifications in Washington, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Moscow and Sydney are devastating.