In the Land of the Lotus Eaters

Syd Fix is in a fix. He has serious disease which causes him great pain, and he’s a regular visitor at an opium den in New York City’s Chinatown. The opium den is amid a maze of underground tunnels, and is run by a Chinese woman, Linn Phan, who is not what she seems; nor is older brother, Sam Phan, who owns and runs a small herb and ginseng store that is a front for his white sex-slave business. Syd’s beautiful young wife, Alba, works as a part time model and a flight attendant for Alitalia. She and Syd’s rapacious billionaire father, Creighton, are on a junket across Italy. Creighton Fix has a reputation of a man bent on seducing as many women as possible. Syd’s neurologist mother, Faith Adams, MD, is about to be taken hostage by a psychopathic prison inmate. Syd is about to encounter one Veronika “Nika” Trelenko, impersonating one of Sam Phan’s slaves, but who is a top KGB assassin on the hunt for her target. These complex set of characters are about to clash under the streets of Chinatown.