Gallery owner Alice Ackerman hires private detective Keith Plant to find her husband, missing in Asia. Plant gets embroiled with the expatriate language teacher Bowles with a penchant for cut-price Bangkok bar girls, excitable Indian professor Ghosh, a Manila bookseller with impeccable CIA connections, and exotic cabaret singer Anna Imelda. Drugged and seduced at the Eternal Night Club, kidnapped and imprisoned in Baguio City, Plant is deported from the Philippines. Fired from the case, he is visited in his rural hideaway by the menacing international publisher Starr, whose taste for dangerous sex climaxes in a Bangkok hotel room.