Lured to Florence by a false business proposition, retired agent Steve Cromarty is framed for a terrorist attack. Deeply implicated and badly needing a pay check, he is unable to refuse involvement in a smuggling scheme. But Cromarty is his own man and he's determined to find out what his ruthless former boss Macbride has in store and where the beautiful Annie's loyalties really lie. Unfortunately, in the murky world he finds himself plunged into, he soon realizes that loyalty and trust are things of the past. A page-turning crime thriller set mainly in Italy and France.