How Danny Rook met an obsessed man, lost a mentor (but gained a friend) and how, when his worst predictions just kept coming true, he quit again - and this time, properly...

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The cost-cutters have arrived in Whitehall. Danny Rook's job has gone for the chop, so they've transferred him to the Department of Trade to vet export licences. But life is never simple for Danny.

Why will nobody see the connection between a Russian germ warfare scientist who has defected via the British Embassy in Paris, a Canadian artillery expert running a project in Iraq, a batch of high-grade steel tubes being manufactured in a factory near Birmingham, and a gruesome message that has been left in Danny's home?

And oh yes - Danny has just rescued a damsel in distress.

Baghdad, Baltimore, Barbados, Halesowen, Kuwait, Larkhill, London, Paris, Saudi Arabia... Wherever will Danny's quest take him next, and who will help him?