The Living Room of the Dead — Eric Stone

Introducing Ray Sharp, American expatriate journalist, detective, and confused human being just trying to do at least a little something right in the world. Helping out the brother of a colleague, Ray gets tangled up in the sleazy and deadly world of the Russian white slave trade. Based on a true story, the action moves from Hong Kong to Macau to an island brothel run by the Chinese Navy in the South China Sea, and finally to its conclusion in Vladivostok, in Russia's wild far east.