When LA screenwriter Sam Wood is murdered days after finishing his new script, down-on-his-luck British producer Marcus Riley is stunned to receive a copy in the mail. FALL OUT is more than a screenplay, it’s a message from an old friend, seeded with clues to a mystery Marcus thought long buried: the disastrous production of THE LAST COMPANY and the disappearance of its stunt coordinator twenty years earlier.

Drawn in alongside Cannes-based designer Melinda ‘Mako’ de Turris, Marcus follows the trail from Los Angeles to the Cannes Film Festival, the Swiss Alps and the Philippines, uncovering a real-life mystery, Yamashita’s Gold, the fortune in plundered treasure the Japanese army hid across the Philippines at the end of the Second World War, and Nu-Shu, the secret script once used only by women in Hunan province. As old alliances unravel and a ruthless fixer closes in, Marcus and Mako must solve Sam’s puzzle before it gets them killed too.