David (Deadly) Dancing, a financial consultant and renowned womaniser, is holed up on the magical Isle of Majorca, evading a demanding tax bill. He is also wanted as a witness at the trial of Rory McCandlass, an IRA terrorist accused of murdering a Government Minister. Jenny McGuire, blonde, Irish born artist, becomes his girlfriend. Then he notices a red Cherokee Jeep follows them everywhere. Is Jenny part of the gang out to get him? The Crown Prosecution Service provide him with a minder, Lisa McWilliam, a cellist, living in the beautiful mountain town of Deia. Fatal disaster strikes. David is imprisoned in a cellar. Threatened with death. Offered as a hostage. The story is about the somewhat sad, lonely and sometimes idiosyncratic struggles of his relationship with Jenny McGuire and his attempts to integrate her into the tangled web of his life.