It begins with an argument between two backpackers and a taxi driver in Jakarta, Indonesia. It ends in Bali on the night of one of the most infamous acts of terrorism in the 21st century. More than a love story, more than an odyssey, THE PUPPET MASTER OF JAVA is an epic: a novel that captures a time and place that changed the world forever. Travellers and travel agents, prostitutes and hawkers, sultans and shamans, presidents and terrorists. The heat, the dirt, the desperation, the shoving, the smiling, the living, the looking, the laughing, the hurrying. THE PUPPET MASTER OF JAVA is a place you haven't been before. THE PUPPET MASTER OF JAVA is Indonesia.