The Dust on the Godown Floor

A Novel

It is 1973 in Bangkok, Thailand, and Bill Thomas is a young expatriate working for WorldMedal Inc. while enjoying occasional romantic trysts with local women anxious to please. But when a co-worker tells him he has received an anonymous warning that the company is in danger of receiving a shipment of ilmenite from Singapore instead of tin ore, Bill’s life is suddenly upended.

Bill and the co-worker have no idea of the identity of the caller—only that he had an accent from Thailand’s tin mining region. After Bill informs an American executive of the developments, he heads for Singapore where a chain of events begins to unfold and truths become evident. As Bill soon finds himself in the midst of a brutal and unforgiving milieu, he must confront challenges he never imagined and a moral dilemma with an outcome that will haunt him for the remainder of his life.

The Dust on the Godown Floor is the suspenseful tale of a young expatriate’s quest to identify and expose the perpetrators behind an audacious, lucrative minerals heist in 1970s Asia.