The seriously obese Morgan Khoo believes he has come up with a brilliant idea to recoup financial losses threatening to sink the family empire he has inherited from his father and, most importantly, allow him to continue a lavish lifestyle centered on his passion for copious quantities of ice-cream and a steady supply of young women.
It might cost a few lives but Morgan has long been guided by the family maxim: “The table manners of the Szechuan tiger are execrable, but he seldom goes hungry”.
His plan centres on the control of government by making the Prime Minister a prisoner in his own office, which the tycoon achieves with the help of local accomplices and ruthless imported mercenaries.
It also involves holding hostage delegates to an international meeting, including the US Secretary of State.
Newspaper editor Jeremy Lord is close to uncovering the plot when he falls into the hands of the mercenaries and is thrown, shackled and semiconscious, into the turbid Singapore river.
A complication arises for Morgan’s mercenaries with the coincidental launching of a strike against the Prime Minister and the international visitors by a communist terrorist cell.
In the ensuing mayhem, the hostages appear doomed to die at the hands of mercenaries or communists. Their lives are dependent on one man’s suicidal-seeming attempt to rescue them.
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