Three distinctive true tales are, in Brogan Abroad, threaded into a single adventure. Brogan plans none—all are thrust upon him and all prove life-threatening. Each destines him to having his throat slit in some dark alley…

Yet what can a man do, he laments, when to accomplish one I must fail at another?

While hiding out in Thailand from a Sydney cocaine cartel, he becomes involved in smuggling high-profile prostitutes into Australia—an adventure interrupted when unwittingly used as a courier in a third-world nation counting down hours to bloody revolution.