1944. Three American soldiers, killed on a bizarre mission behind German lines, sprawl dead beside an Italian lake. At the bottom of the lake: four million dollars’ worth of gold…..

          1976. Sharky, ace undercover cop busted to the Vice Squad for being too damn sharp, listens to some outrageous erotic tapes that catapult him into the murderous world of financial manipulation, top-level political intrigue and sexual corruption spawned by that wartime bloodbath.

          Soon Sharky and the team he calls his "machine" are headed for the storm centre of the most lethal conspiracy America has ever known…..

          SHARKY’S MACHINE sweeps from Nazi-occupied Europe to the deadly opulence of Hong Kong’s brothels, from the steel-and-glass fortress that houses one of the world’s mightiest financial empires to the depths of the criminal underworld and on to the most shattering climax in modern thriller fiction.