When Ryme Lady, a freighter,
disappears with all hands and a sixty million cargo,
American hard man Art Lemman and English ex-lawyer
Gavin Blair investigate for the International Maritime
Bureau.
The ship’s owners are fighting insolvency and are
fearful of a predatory attack on the stock of their
company by Carl Klodinsky, an American shipping tycoon.
But has Ryme Lady sunk at all? Or is it an insurance
scam, an attack by pirates or an act of international
terrorism? On whose side is Claudine, Klodinsky’s chic
French-American assistant who exposes Gavin’s
vulnerability.
Through Paris, Singapore, New York, London and West
Africa, an air of menace and death threaten the
investigation and only when Cerne View, a huge cargo
vessel is attacked and arrested in West Africa, do Art
and Gavin realise that something far more sinister is
involved … nothing less than an international outrage
involving The White House and 10 Downing Street.
Despite their uneasy relationship, the investigators
have to work together against the most deadly of
enemies … time!
