Publisher's Synopsis
Adam Zawadzki's brutal murder on what should have been a routine delivery to placid Costa Rica shocks everyone at SIS. Peter Ashton starts to probe deeper into the messenger's background and what he was carrying, but is urged not to look too closely. Jill Sheridan, Ashton's one-time lover, knows something she isn't saying; so does a shady former police detective. Then an innocent housewife dies during a botched burglary in the London suburbs and the case becomes urgent. Soon Ashton has teased out most of the actors: a Cuban spy, a Turkish assassin, a lowly civil servant, a would-be British spy with a Walter Mitty character. But can he find out how they are connected before more innocents die?
