Jack is approached by Louise Nettles, whose daughter, Jesse, has vanished whilst doing anthropological research in Sumatra.

Indranee, Jesse's teacher, helps Jack to investigate the Kabut, a secret society practicing ancient tribal magic.

Together they must dodge the Bukittinggi Vortex, end of Ramadan fireworks and, most importantly, two factions of a dangerous organization engaged in an internal power-struggle, neither of which wants outside interference.

This story states that Jack publishes his adventures - Carlos Castaneda style - and thus is known to the world at large.

[3] The IMDb entry for Valeria Vasilevski credits her as the voice of one of the Android Sisters in a 1985 animated film by Bill Plympton called Boomtown.