This is a tough, hard-hitting novel about a washed-up American flyer who gambled his life for a fortune in the broiling, war-ravaged jungles of Burma. Here are the hard-bitten and cynical men out for a quick million, and restless, avid-eyed women who are part of the winner's spoils.

It is a story of greed and violence in the seething cauldron of Asia today - a story of sudden riches and sudden death.