Being the best friend of Largo Winch isn’t always an advantage.

Spotted by secret service agents from Myanmar (formerly Burma), Simon Ovronnaz and his new conquest, inspector Marjan Texel, are brutally captured and imprisoned facing murder charges.

After a trial that makes a mockery of justice, Simon is sentenced to death and taken to the impenetrable Makiling Fortress. Unaware of his friend’s fate, Largo flirts and plays the field, while a new web of death is woven about him...