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.
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.