Secrets

Four young European travellers in southeast Asia become inadvertently caught up in a complex web of crime, suspense, political conspiracy and love, as each searches for the secrets of fulfilment against a background of East Timor’s emerging independence. Hack writer Martin Beard is trying to escape from his world of predictable, mainstream journalism. He is forced to re-examine the very basis of the democratic processes that have shaped his career as he becomes deeply involved in the lives of his three fellow travellers. This book explores the secrets, events and relationships which draw four disparate people together in their search for meaning in journey’s end—and in the journey itself.