Publisher's Synopsis
Harry Banner turns up in London one November evening. Just arrived from Venezuela, he visits Robert Cade, a man he'd known six years earlier in Buenos Aires. Banner wants Cade to keep a certain parcel until he returns for it. But the package remains uncollected: the next morning Banner is found dead in his hotel room, with a stab wound to the chest... Other people come looking for the parcel - and Cade departs for Venezuela, intending to investigate Harry's murder. However, in San Borja the climate can be very unhealthy for someone asking too many questions...
