Publisher's Synopsis
Agent John Bentick is not enjoying his latest assignment for British Intelligence - personal bodyguard to Nargan, an abrasive foreign diplomat on a covert mission to exchange military secrets. On their arrival at the isolated house of Professor Dale in Cornwall, Bentick senses an atmosphere of mystery and menace generated by Dale's latest invention - a sinister machine that is somehow shaping the destiny of everyone in the house. Soon he finds himself a helpless pawn in a figurative chess game that can only end in death...
