Christy Claiborne, the twenty-something founder of a women's shelter in San Antonio, travels to Bangkok to network with sister organizations, and is sucked into a one-woman war against a vast and powerful empire built on child prostitution. To rescue 22 young girls from the empire's ruler, an octogenarian Australian, and then destroy his empire, Christy finds a few unlikely allies, including a wild bull elephant that weighs ten tons and is nearly two centuries old.