Publisher's Synopsis
She was not an action woman: she could not run very fast; she favoured ballet slippers over combat boots, she never swore and still suffered from nightmares; she did not enjoy confrontation of any kind. She was reluctant to face risk, and it was a quality that made her very good at her job. Her art lay in her ability to pass unnoticed, to slip in and out of the cracks of life, to be quietly invisible.
If James Bond had a slightly eccentric younger sister; if Eloise had outgrown the Plaza and joined a kidnap and ransom outfit; if Carrie Bradshaw had trained as a secret service agent, they might have been like the fearless Stevie Duveen. Tiny as a bird but sharp as an ice pick, Stevie flits between megawatt celebrities, Russian assassins, and tea times with her indomitable grandmother Didi. As Hazard's unlikeliest risk assessor, Stevie travels to Moscow in the heart of winter on the most unusual of assignments. The young daughter of the Head of the Russian Central Bank, Anya Kozkov, has been kidnapped and no one is above suspicion. Stevie is finds herself on a wild quest to get her back alive. Armed with her quick wit and a string of pearls, she stalks strippers in Moscow nightclubs, dodges police at the ice polo in St. Moritz, and infiltrates a sanatorium deep in the Swiss Alps. Determined to find the missing girl against all odds, Stevie's hunt soon becomes a battle of wits against some of Russia's most dangerous and powerful men.
