Jake Ord & his enigmatic companion Magda are living in seclusion in a small inland town in the Algarve Portugal They each have something to hide & to fear but their life together is just how they want it tranquil safe & agreeably boring All that changes when Jake receives a phone call late at night from an old friend in the Northumbria Police Force He learns that crime boss Ed Fogarty has escaped from prison & is intent on exacting revenge from all those including Jake who helped put him there Fogarty is also intent on recovering the GBP20 million missing from his last heist money that he believes one of them still has & he knows where Jake is living! As Fogarty ticks off the names on his hit list Jake goes on the run across Europe taking Magda with him Along the way in Portugal Central Europe & England Jake discovers that Magda is a woman with hidden talents as well as a hidden past She is no stranger to the criminal underworld or to the violent men with whom he must do battle Her betrayal distances him from her for a time but in Crete they stand & fight together again as Fogarty & his men finally close in on them