Publisher's Synopsis
David Mould kills his abusive father and joins the British army only to disappear on exercise in Germany in 1987. Fifteen years later Ivan Goloshin, a Russian multimillionaire critical of Putin's regime, flees St Petersburg with his daughter Irina to seek asylum in the UK but is targeted for assassination. Peter Johnson joins MI5 after Cambridge and falls in love with Irina. MP John Amherst desperately needs a loan from Goloshin to stave off bankruptcy. A thriller played out on the chess board of Germany, Russia, London and the Costa del Sol at the turn of the millennium, the fates of all of them are intertwined and depend on the roll of the dice. But who really is the hitman and will he succeed? Will Superintendent McIntosh of the Met be able to catch the assassin in time?
