The wealthy businessman Cy Stephenson is enjoying the comfortable lifestyle afforded to a president of a New York country club. But he leaves behind a wild past in Saigon’s notorious Eros bar, where hedonism often turned into something more sinister. Meanwhile in Saigon, the beautiful Amerasian young woman Nan Luc is determined to honour her father and find the truth behind her mother’s death. She attends a provincial corruption trial in Vietnam that reveals Stephenson’s lurid activities during the war, and driven by vengeance for her mother she crosses the ocean to America to kill her father. Determined to keep a lid on his past, Stephenson embarks on a tactical affair with...

The year is 1986. Inside the Soviet Union — the unthinkable is about to happen… Sweeping across the social strata of Soviet Society, from the Gulags to the highest offices in the Communist Party, from the peasantry to sophisticated literary circles, Russia is a powder keg ready to explode… The death of Leonid Brezhnev has left the party leaderless. The fearless Natalya Roginova is positioning herself as a reformist figure against the brutal KGB General Semyon Kuba, who is determined to preserve the status quo. A beautiful young student, Zoya Densky, is politicized by the arrest of her father, the central figure in a new movement to restore workers’ rights. Igor...