Inspector Singh is in Cambodia, though he wishes he weren't. His superiors have sent him as an observer to the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, in a desperate attempt to get him out of their sight.

For the first time, the inspector is nearly losing his appetite when one of the tribunal's leading members is murdered in cold blood. The authorities try to sweep it under the rug, but Singh refuses. It won't be long before he finds himself embroiled in a horrific investigation, one whose roots lie in the dark depths of Cambodia's killing fields...

A gentle introduction to the terrible subject of Pol Pot's crimes, the Khmer Rouge, and the extermination camps where a quarter of Cambodia's population perished during one of the most surreal periods in history.