When an army officer is murdered by a Korean civilian, Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, investigate, only to discover that someone wants the case to remain unsolved.

"South Korea, 1974. CID Sergeants George Sueno and Ernie Bascom are assigned an underwhelming case of petty theft: Major Frederick M. Schulz has accused Miss Jo Kyong-Ja, an Itaewon bar girl, of stealing a hundred thousand won from him--a sum equaling less than fifty US dollars. After two very divergent accounts of what happened, Miss Jo is attacked in the night, and Schulz is found hacked to death only days later. Did tensions simply escalate to...