Chasing the Dragon

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Singapore 1940</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A local fisherman finds the body of a missing American archaeologist</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Detective Inspector Betancourt of the Singapore Marine Police is first on the scene. Something doesn't quite add up. He finds out that the archaeologist Richard Fulbright was close to deciphering the previously-untranslatable script on a pre-colonial relic known as the Singapore Stone. This was no accidental drowning.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Is there more to this case than archaeological rivalries?</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Betancourt also discovers that Fulbright had been having an affair. He is sure he is onto something bigger than just academic infighting.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A government opium factory draws criminal interest</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In his investigations into the death Betancourt finds his own life in danger and now he has also put himself on the wrong side of British Military Intelligence and he is unsure which set of opponents he fears the most...</span></p>