When Penn Gwinn and his partner, PZ, are hired by a Philippine national to tail a woman twenty-four hours a day, they think it is a simple marital relations case. But Penn and PZ soon realize the man who has hired them is not a rejected husband, but more likely an agent of the Philippine government. From hair-raising car chases in San Francisco to the troubled political center of Manila, Penn and PZ discover a trail of drug smuggling, murder and intrigue that reaches the highest offices of the Philippine government, including the government’s suspected involvement in the assassination of Benigno Aquino in 1983. Drugs, greed, and government secrets: will Penn and PZ get out alive?