Ron Eldon answers a call telling him one of his agents is dead, jumped from Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. Ron is a semi-retired MI5 agent, the news hits hard, because this time the agent was his daughter. How his daughter died is somehow wrapped up in a meeting Ron had with a Russian agent twenty years ago. Who hated her enough to kill her, or did her investigations lead her to a tragic end?
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A retired secret service agent hunts for his daughter's killer. Taking on the role of detective, in a case that everyone says is a suicide, Ron Eldon, aided by ex-colleague, Yolanda Reddy, are confronted by official obstruction, plagued by red herrings, confounded by false information, and tricked by a Russian spy who has history with Eldon during the Cold War.
Leaving a string of dead bodies and a minefield of revelations, Eldon is battered, beaten, captured, escapes to continue his crusade, ranging across London, Bristol, Cornwall and Yorkshire. This spy thriller story delves into British colonial past, present day slavery and Russian dirty tricks, uncovering truths that dare not speak their name, ending with a shocking twist that reframes the whole story in a new and defining light.