Struggling to establish a private investigator business, Harry Thompson takes a case from the shady Dilton-Emmet but the rescue of a kidnapped businessman's daughter quickly mushrooms into multi-national intrigue and murder
John William Wainwright was a rear gunner in World War II, after which he spent twenty years as a policeman in Yorkshire. He wrote eighty crime novels between 1965 and 1992, sometimes under the pseudonym 'Jack Ripley'. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.