Gold, a lot of it, has been discovered in the oil rich tropics of Sumatra. Or has it? From an American suburb incongruously set into a jungle clearing, to the sleazy bars of Jakarta; from a neighborhood floating on a river, to the dense, steaming rainforest; corporate investigator Ray Sharp's job is to ferret out the truth.

Why does a Frenchman want to kill Ray? Who's been shoved out of a helicopter, and why? What's Ray's ex-wife, and her boyfriend, got to do with it?

Loosely (very) based on the facts of the Bre-X gold fraud of 1997, Flight of the Hornbill is a thrill ride through an exotic Asian landscape...

Gold, a lot of it, has been discovered in the oil rich tropics of Sumatra. Or has it? From an American suburb incongruously set into a jungle clearing, to the sleazy bars of Jakarta; from a neighborhood floating on a river, to the dense, steaming rainforest; corporate investigator Ray Sharp's job is to ferret out the truth.

Why does a Frenchman want to kill Ray? Who's been shoved out of a helicopter, and why? What's Ray's ex-wife, and her boyfriend, got to do with it?

Loosely (very) based on the facts of the Bre-X gold fraud of 1997, Flight of the Hornbill is a thrill ride through an exotic Asian landscape...

Hong Kong s been handed back to the Chinese. Ray Sharp s whole world is changing. Carnivorous Tibetan monks are worried about what a Chinese bank is doing with their money. A murderous, sociopathic veteran of the U.S. invasion of Grenada, along with his twin kung-fu bodyguards, Floss and Betty, muddy the waters. Adding to it all is a painful dumpling accident, drugs, sex and rock and roll; along with the usual coterie of business moguls, hookers, friends and foes. And the return of Ray s Chinese-Mexican colleague and pal, the diminutive Ms. Wen Lei Yue....