Gar Randolph

When Siam’s Minister of Defense formally requests assistance analyzing an odd insurgent group the Department of Homeland Security sends Garfield “Gar” Randolph to team up with the Minister’s alluring assistant, Pun. Together they unravel opium operations from A to Z, where “I” stands for Insurgency. Ar Phat, a ruthless Robin Hood of Asia has been meticulous and brilliant in building a secret opium empire.

Garfield “Gar” Randolph is at it again. When asked to track down gold smugglers who are subverting the Hong Kong Gold Trading Mercantile, he forms a team and sets out to poison the well of corruption. The Philippine Government assigns an inexperienced, yet streetwise and strikingly beautiful agent to coordinate with Gar. Almost immediately, lives are in danger as they concoct a solution that is three parts genius, two parts psychological warfare, and one giant part sleight-of-hand.

Burma oozes greed, corruption, and hope. When an Air Force X-37B mini-space shuttle mysteriously crash lands along the China-Burma border, the Department of Homeland Security tags contractor Gar Randolph to get it back. India and China deploy special forces to do the same. Gar assembles a most unusual team to find the wreckage and carry its top secret components back to Siam. Included is the last person on earth the US government would want on the mission: a drug lord named Ar Phat. On a converging vector is a missionary nutritionist with six Rohingya orphans.

Papua, with its vast regions of unexplored jungles and isolated indigenous tribes, is home to a medicinal plant with potent curative powers. The plant's unique ability to regenerate human nerves is even more consequential. Neurological scientist Ripon Siraj and his research botanist sister, Rava, search Papua's interior rivers for this rate miracle plant when they become the target of a scurrilous Asian virologist. A co-worker and his girlfriend are mistaken for Rip and Rava and are murdered. Rip calls Washington, DC, for help.

Prime Minister Robert Saleh feels helpless as his economy stagnates year after year. When a representative of the shadowy organization known as Armageddon offers funding for several national-level infrastructure projects, he can’t resist signing an overly expansive contract. News of this secret agreement, which includes a level of mercenary support for national security, sparks international concern. Saleh hopes to play Armageddon’s investments against those of Australia and the United States, who’d focused their interest and resources elsewhere.