Metal Viper

Kae Zhang has dedicated her life to ending torture as an investigative tool— worldwide. She, and the organization she founded, Article 5 (A5), have done so more than a dozen times in some of the most dangerous places on earth. It’s what she does. But the midnight call from Myanmar to Kae’s offices in Geneva, Switzerland, brings the fight crashing back home. Before the deadly coup, Myanmar had been one of A5’s successes. Now, a new nightmare rules. A poet-baker and his 12 year old son, Vika, have been arrested by Myanmar’s brutal Tatmadaw regime for their crime of “seditious poetry”—writing poetry for peace. Now, it is up to Kae and her team to save the young poet, Vika. His father, “disappeared,” is already a casualty of the ruthless, authoritarianism of this land, formerly known as Burma. A daunting task even for the expertise of Kae Zhang, but now even more so since Kae has never encountered the venom of the man in charge of this mayhem, known to all who live in fear of him, as the Metal Viper. Kae is used to putting her own life at risk—but this time she’s also risking her team on the ground in Myanmar, her people in Geneva, and her husband and two young sons. Because the Metal Viper is a man whose wrath knows no borders.