The Carolyn Factor

Max Kugar is a dealer in vintage sporting and military treasures, a vet with tours of Afghanistan under his belt, and a history of heartbreak when he succumbs to his weakness for women named Carolyn.

A call from a new beautiful Carolyn, a failed actress, lures him to California where she retains Kugar to broker the sale of a Japanese sword brought back from WWII by her grandfather.  The sword is the legendary sword of the shoguns, Honjo Masanume, declared a Japanese national treasure in 1939, and a sword that vanishing at the end of WWII.

Kugar must broker the sword without attracting the attention of the Japanese or US Government, while pursued by Carolyn's psychopath brother and his drug cartel partners, who are determined to own the priceless sword at any costs.

Carolyn joins him in flight from their pursuers, urgent to find a buyer and end this whirl of danger, trying their best to stay alive and ahead of men who are determined to see them both dead.