An antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch & executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper & an unusual choice of gun. Ex-cop Zatopek ` Zed` van Heerden has just seven days to solve the case
- an almost impossible task made even harder when he discovers that, until a few years ago, there was no proof that the victim even existed.. .