1964-65. Singapore is a city at a cross roads. Whilst the British take out political and racial anxieties are in fever pitch, and also a fresh state is about to be born. Bugis Street's lights have not burned so bright: bootleg copies of music stand out of road stalls. The Rolling Stones come in the city along with American sailors fresh from viet nam and tourists. They join Australian and British troops checking gaming dens and the prostitutes out en route with their war in Borneo. That can be actually the city of Sam Callaghan, Patricia Cheng along with the clients of the Cheng Detective Agency. The bureau's cases range from the most common (straying partners and petty fraudsters) to events together with international implications and complications. The contacts from his military days of sam are more useful - however they start to haul him back to a world that is dark that he would prefer to leave behind.