Fast paced thriller combining financial wheeler-dealing and double-dealing with action, romance, betrayal and vengeance. Conflict arises in the marble halls of Lloyd's of London, when the closely guarded secret of Michael's moneymaking system attracts the attention of less scrupulous characters. Before long the power of greed pushes the protagonists over the line between wheeler-dealing and double-dealing, and Michael finds himself fighting for his professional life in a world where he can no longer trust anyone. As the novel progresses, tension translates into violence, attraction develops into passion, and the desire for revenge grows so fierce that perhaps only rape and murder can appease it in the end.