Cirrus@Austlit

'Sent on her first official assignment to Hong Kong, Ella is focused on making a good impression with her boss...

'Only the underworld of kidnapping and trafficking of young girls was not a planned part of the mission for agent Ella Portman, who finds herself inadvertently thrust into the sleezy operations of the Hong Kong Triads while attempting to save young women from being sold to the rich and corrupt clients, and while also trying to stay alive as the Triads try to stop her crusade from bankrupting their enterprise...

'The tension is choking as Ella races through the city of Hong Kong on a mission of time and diplomacy, and although sent there to seek out 20 containers of armaments that went missing while being shipped from Afghanistan to Australia, she must survive the city low life and fight off the underworld killer elite to stay alive...

'Millions of dollars at stake for the Triads; Billions of dollars at stake for the arms dealers; reputations of the rich and infamous at stake if discovered to be involved in the sex trading operation and ASIO Agent Ella Portman diving into the middle of it all with only one instinctive tactic as her guiding force; To stay alive.' (Publication summary)

'Ella Portman is an ASIO covert operative on a mission to stop a North Korean plot, with the help of a local cell of terrorists, to steal a military stealth drone and use it to attack Australia or the United States or their southern neighbour. The situation is unclear as the chase begins. As more information is gathered, the Australian and United States governments co-operate to prevent what is looking more and more like a Korean peninsula, and possibly a global, conflict emerging.

'Amid assassination attempts and gunfights, it is found that the actions of a group of financially powerful megalomaniacs are at work. These people, who think it is simple to create a diversion and attack their neighbour and the world, will stand by and do nothing once they are in power, and it sets the world on a knife's edge. Ella is left in the desert to die with her two call-girl friends as her investigations lead to evidence of an underground secret superconductor mining operation in Queensland.

'The chase goes from Southern Queensland and the freeing of a kidnapped family with the help of a failed pioneer aviation flight across Western Australia and the Pine Gap joint Australia-U.S. base to the Northern territories and across the sea to East Timor and into a shipwrecking Typhoon.

'With an attack imminent and tensions around the world mounting, a strange twist takes place.'  (Publication summary)