After meeting his estranged daughter for the first time in a Malaysian court, and planning a reunion in New York, lawyer Matthew Parker finds himself reluctantly in the clutches of his criminal brother-in-law.
Making unlikely allies as he conducts his illicit dealings, he becomes ever more involved in activities which can only end in tragedy.
Moving seamlessly between the low life of New York and the well-heeled of aristocratic New England, he determines to extricate both himself and his daughter from the worsening situation, but it doesn't go according to plan and when he has to make choices with life or death consequences; there can only be one outcome.
A tale of fraud, kidnap and murder from the pen of Margaret Mackay.