Playing on the basic human desires for easy money and grisly vengeance, Shield Of Straw is a crime thriller where a group of police officers are assigned to protect an alleged criminal from a nation out to murder him for money. The Shield of Straw movie (NTV, 2013) screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, and is now currently being distributed across the globe through the home video market, soon to reach the UK. Warner Brothers has optioned the novel for movie adaptation.