November2001. The holy month of Ramadan. With the world reeling from the attack on the twin towers, a Delta team is furiously hunting a master terrorist amongst an isolated expatriate community in the mountains of Saudi Arabia. The carefully planted bait, a family matter of honour. Visiting his estranged wife and child on the military hospital compound, Riad al Ajmi, British educated homicide detective, realises a serial killer -- a shadowy spectre of a cat -- has been prowling for more than a decade, the authorities in denial for reasons of their own. His own family in imminent danger, Riad...

Mrs Charlotte De Granville wanted a quiet, unobtrusive, not too clever private detective for a very discreet little job. The nature of the assignment dictated a certain economy of truth when it came to briefing said detective. He would detect and she would take care of the rest -- with extreme prejudice. Anthony M Moretti, failed golf pro, onetime Miami nightclub hustler and more recently PI specializing in divorce work, fitted the bill rather nicely. So Tony got the job and the kind of trip that would take him from the glitter of Cape Towns jet set to the rotten underbelly of pulsating...

December 1991. South Africa dismantles six thermonuclear devices. July 1994. Weeks after the Government of Reconciliation takes power the newly appointed Director of National Intelligence learns that a nuclear weapon has surfaced in the hands of an international arms dealer. Open for business the country cannot afford anything that would rock the boat. The bomb must be found and nobody must ever know it existed. But who to trust? In charge of the very organisation that put him behind bars, he needs outside help. Enter Harry Dance, ex-special forces and sometime fellow prisoner on The Island....