$400 million is in the wind, more than ten tons of cash money, the result of a bungled CIA operation to grab the foreign currency reserves of the Bank of Vietnam when the Americans fled Saigon in 1975.

A couple of decades later, the word on the street is that all that money somehow ended up in Bangkok and a downwardly mobile lawyer from California named Eddie Dare is the only guy left alive who might have a chance at figuring out where it is.

Eddie knows nothing about the missing money. At least, he doesn’t think he does. But so many people claim he’s got an inside track on finding it that he and an old marine buddy of his father’s named Winnebago Jones decide to head for Bangkok anyway and do a little treasure hunting. It doesn’t hurt that a one-million-dollar finder’s fee – in advance - was put in front him, along with all expenses paid. What do they have to lose?

Their lives, as it turns out. When they plunge into the jagged netherworld of modern-day Bangkok, it doesn’t take long for things to get really weird - including finding a father who both he and Winnebego Jones thought had died in the war.

Bangkok is about as far from California as Eddie can get without sailing completely over the edge of the world. Although, at times, he wonders if that isn’t exactly what he has done.