London: March 1966. Despite not being fully fit Detective Chief Inspector Neil Goddard is called back early from sick leave to find the killer of a man found viciously beaten around the head by an unusual weapon in the grounds of Oddhams House where an important conference on Rhodesia and its Unilateral Declaration of Independence is scheduled to begin in a few weeks. In order to guarantee the safety of the delegates and to ensure that there is no link with the dead man he is tasked with solving the case as a matter of urgency before the press get to hear of it, especially as attached to the...