Présentation de l'éditeur :
Tweed - once top Yard detective, now SIS Deputy Director - reluctantly agrees to check out suspect Michael, urged by his old friend, Superintendent Buchanan. Found by Buchanan seated on steps in Whitehall, Michael uttered only three words. 'I witnessed murder.'
A simple request becomes a nightmare. One by one four brutally ravaged skeletons are discovered. Two of them on Dartmoor, near the mansion of Drago Volkanian, Armenian founder of a giant supermarket chain and - an armaments plant.
With Paula Grey, his assistant, Tweed pursues the unknown killer with the relentlessness the murderer destroyed the victims. Among others, he interrogates the strange Volkanian clan - Lucinda, Drago's stepdaughter, steely and moody; her elder brother Larry, the company managing director. He again meets Michael, the younger brother, who is still unable to speak. He is suffering from amnesia - or so say two psychiatrists.
Unlike Buchanan, Tweed insists the horrific murders are not random. A link must exist between the four victims. He also suspects a foreign power is involved. The tempo ratchets up ferociously. With Paula, Bob Newman and his team, Tweed travels to Marseilles, where murder is a way of life. A desperate battle takes place on a mysterious island. Escaping the city alive by a hairsbreadth, they race back home. Later they return to Dartmoor.
Who is the fiendish killer? One eerie climax follows another. Could Michael be the key?
Biographie de l'auteur :
Colin Forbes is the author of twenty-nine thrillers which are now published into thirty languages. He writes a novel every year.
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