Publisher's Synopsis
Benin Light shines out through the darkness as Richard Mariner, marine adventurer, approaches on board the supertanker Prometheus V. The lighthouse is the marker for Granville Harbour, wild and inaccessible on the western coast of Africa. After an unfriendly exchange with the harbour master, Richard decides it is time to sort it out. His wife, Robin, organises one of the hotel's helicopters to pick him up, but when they are above the harbour bullets strike the side of the helicopter. The city is a place of poverty and corruption, but the couple are still shocked to see the Russian ex-militia man, Sergeant Voroshilov. And when armed guards arrive at the hotel to arrest Richard, trouble really begins...