: The vivid depiction of early 1960s Saigon as a tense, humid melting pot filled with vice, opportunism, and shifting post-colonial powers.

: Made into the 1967 West German movie Lotus Flowers for Miss Quon directed by Jürgen Roland. 📖 Core Plot Outline

: Steve Jaffe, an expatriate American businessman working in Saigon, discovers $2 million worth of diamonds hidden behind a wall in his rented villa.