Charlie Epson pulls his oars against the tides every morning in a silent contest with his past. He is among a very special cohort monitored within the Angel Landing Yacht Club; those whose career misadventures in public service exposed them to matters never to be shared. Yes, this group needs to drink a lot, but like their glasses filled to the brim, they are permitted good conversation without spilling.

When an old colleague winds up in the bay with a broken neck and former Soviet assassins arrive looking for laundered Ukrainian funds to help their war effort, Bjorn Ingman and Mark Jamison are once again called into action in this thrilling new mystery, the third volume following on Angel Landing and Persona Non Grata: End of the Great Game by the same renowned author.