... to get the file of secret papers known as The Blunt Legacy. Buy it if you have to, take it for nothing if you can. With Lacey go four million pounds and a man he's never met, called Lamont-Smith. But why should anyone want the file that badly? Who is Lamont-Smith really working for? The Blunt Legacy holds the sort of secrets governments would prefer to remain hidden and many people are willing to kill to obtain.
There was a list somewhere ...
... and someone was working his way through it, leaving a trail of death across Europe. Peter Lacey becomes involved when the daughter of the Home Secretary is killed while in SIS custody. He has to find the killer and discover who has ordered the hits. It has to be one of the world's major intelligence agencies. But is the Wicked Witch of the East? Or of the West?