It's 1973, and Sergeants George Suen~o and Ernie Bascom, CID investigators for the U.S. 8th Army in Seoul, Korea, are once again on the hunt.
Two decades since the 1953 armistice, Korea's economy has yet to recover and still supports a thriving black market. The illegitimate mixed-race offspring of American GIs and local women are treated as outcasts. Two, a stunning young woman and her accomplice, have turned to a series of vicious crimes that began with their slipping a drug into Suen~o's drink so that they could mug him and steal his .45 automatic and ID documents.
The loss of a firearm is treated as a severe infraction, so Suen~o, who conveys the story in the first person, and partner Bascom embark on a desperate search to track down the felons and recover the weapon. Their investigation turns into a series of madcap encounters with uncooperative American colleagues, adversarial Korean cops, seedy black marketers and bar girls on the make.