How far would you go to bring about change for the better? Does the end always justify the means? What is the meaning of love, friendship and sacrifice, and the definable meaning of wrong and right?
A group of friends, newly discharged from the elite French Foreign Legion travel through Central America on a road trip to freedom. On the way one encounters a woman from the Arabian desert, little knowing the influence she will have on his life.
In this two-part epic, the tale takes us to ex-Yugoslavia and then the icy winter of Siberia for a thrilling chase involving a diamond heist, a beautiful and beguiling Saami shaman and both the CIA and Israeli intelligence, as well as international diamond thieves the Pink Panthers.
"Hamish Gunn's 'Winner Takes All' is a political thriller and an exposé of the secretive world of espionage. Has all the hallmarks of a cult classic. Gunn is to romance and adventure what Thomas Wolfe is to New Journalism."
Turku Literary Circle