A young woman is pulled from a river in the heart of France. The police have three suspects in custody, they have a motive and no one else could have been involved. Yet without a murder weapon or forensics it has become impossible to convict.
Sam Taylor of the Foreign Office’s Repatriation Department is sent to resolve the stalled case. But in trying to move the case forward he opens up a deeper secret. A secret threatens to tear open the entire community.
Not knowing who to trust Taylor must negate the dangerous world of murder, organised crime, and treachery to ensure that he himself returns home.
The British Ambassadors personal secretary is missing. Repatriation Officer Sam Taylor arrives in Berlin to begin the hunt in Europe’s premier city.
But as Sam searches through the historic German capital, it is his own steps that become the trail. In the city of spies Sam soon realises that the disappearance is not all it seems as long forgotten shadows reach out once more.
As deadly enemies circle ever closer Sam will need to come face to face with his own past if he is to survive.
Retired MI6 agent, Selwin Birks is found dead in his Spanish villa. Two days later the still active MI5 agent Chris Kane is found murdered just off the coast.
The police can see no link between them.
Repatriation Officer Sam Taylor is sent to the Spanish coastal town of Jávea to over see the investigation.
But in a town struggling to find balance between old and new Sam must quickly find the connection between the two, before the connection finds him.