Mao II

Bill Gray, a famous and reclusive novelist, emerges from isolation when he agrees to travel to Beirut to assist the release of a fellow writer, who is being held hostage. As Bill enters a violent world of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, his dangerous journey leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's.