The Apology

Filmmaker Christian Lindstrom returns to Vietnam to shoot tourism commercials, only to confront the agony of his past and the power there of the Asian underworld to control political events-including the creation and the whitewashing of Japan's history itself. For producer Nachi Tanaka, it is the story of the shameful sins of the fathers coming back to hurt and haunt her family generations later. For the Japanese government, it is a coup d'état engineered by powerful business interests with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, doing their murderous bidding.

The Apology is author Eric Haggman's first book, inspired by his own two-month long trips touring Vietnam and Japan, a passion for history, politics, all things mafia, and thriller novels by his favorite writers including James Patterson, James Lee Burke, Stieg Larsson and Michael Connelly. When not traveling throughout Asia and South Africa shooting videos and gathering research for his writing, Eric is the CEO and Creative Director of Haggman Advertising, which he founded. His work has been cited for excellence over 200 times by nearly every major advertising award show in the country.

A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native, Eric graduated from Colgate University. He lives on the North Shore of Boston with his muse and wife, Emily, and their cat, Shanghai, who thinks he is a dog.