As a top Italian industrialist, Veronica Contessa Rocco di Torrepadula routinely employs bodyguards (BGs). But when her woman close protection officer lets her down in a submachinegun attack, she is forced to replace her with a man: Simon Shearer, Aussie working with a UK private intelligence office, also SAS-trained BG.
Shearer is used to being BG for temperamental principals, but when Veronica repeatedly ignores his advice, he considers resigning. Only the determination shown by Detta – the Countess’s daughter, often at odds with her mother – keeps Shearer in the game. Detta plays a key role in countering her mother’s dangerous wilfulness in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Evidence trickles out, suggesting that the mystery vendetta is being waged by a cult that exercises mind control over its members…by misusing Gladion, a drug made by one of Veronica’s companies.
Greater detail emerges when another would-be assassin is captured before he can fire on Veronica. It’s Gareth, a young Englishman with his mind messed up through a girlfriend breakup and the lures – and demands – of the cult.
Betrayal follows betrayal as the action moves from Rome to southern France, then to North Cyprus. Now it’s not just Gareth who has to be silenced – it’s Shearer as well. Shearer turns the tables when he’s dumped into a snake pit. But, escaping, he has to get Detta as well as Gareth to safety alongside himself. Then Gareth stops a bullet…
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