When seventy-one-year-old private investigator Deets Shanahan learns from a snippet of news on the Internet that his brother (who disappeared when they were kids) could be somewhere in Thailand, he immediately sets out, accompanied by his lover, Maureen, to find his errant sibling. But it turns out that this is much more than finding a missing person who wants to stay missing, and treasure, deceit and murder soon interrupt their search on the streets of Bangkok and on the beaches of Phuket...