Whoever finds the wartime gold–lives.

Working Tokyo nightclubs is easy money for the party-loving Val Benson – until her number-one tipper, Takahashi, a corporate titan with sinister hobbies, reveals a map to gold stolen during World War Two.

Val embarks on an action-packed treasure hunt, from the neon-drenched streets of Japan to the mountainous jungles of Thailand. Snapping at her high heels are Yakuza gangsters; bent cops; rogue CIA agents; and Val’s estranged father, a philandering Congressman.

Val is joined in her quest by Suki, a hostess desperate for a new life; Simon, a British kickboxer; and Muddy McKenzie, a washed-up Australian treasure hunter. But as they close in on the gold, can she trust them?

More than her life depends on reaching the map’s destination. As Val and her friends blaze a trail of chaos across Asia, they unearth secrets of war crimes and ancient betrayals. The chase becomes Val’s race for salvation.