The knock on the door of struggling art expert Madison Dupre's low rent New York apartment is that of a Thai caf� deliveryman - but instead of succulent noodles, he has a rare work of art from the incredible Angkor Wat in the jungles of Cambodia.

Angkor Wat, a wonder of the ancient world, is considered by many antiquity experts to be even more majestic than the monuments of the Egyptian pharaohs.� Left unprotected, the vast complex has been a treasure trove for thieves who mercilessly cut off pieces, mutilating thousand-year-old sculptures with chainsaws.

Madison knows there is no possibility that this artifact could have been acquired legally.� That knock on her door sends her to one of the most dangerous places on the planet: Phnom Penh, the sex-sin-drug capital of the Far East.

Stepping into a cauldron of murder and antiquity-looting that takes her from New York to Cambodia, Hong Kong to Thailand, Madison keeps one step ahead of temple robbers who kill as easily as they steal.� She finds comfort in the arms of a soldier of fortune; tangles with a Russian model and her stud 'bodyguard,'� who introduce her to the New Eroticism; and gets entangled with a Cambodian prince whose sex moves not even the worldly Madison had tried.�

But how much is Madison willing to sacrifice in order to protect her priceless, irreplaceable antiquities...?