November 1956. The world is in turmoil. While the Suez Crisis & the Hungarian Uprising boil away in the background Lennox has more immediate concerns like getting his personal life & his business back on track. So when a woman comes into Lennoxs office & hires him to follow her husband whom she suspects of leading a double life it seems the perfect case. Straightforward typical
- if a little sordid
- & most of all legal. But as he begins to dig deeper Lennox realizes that this is no ordinary case of marital infidelity. He finds himself caught by the police in a room with a dead body; pursued by shadowy members of the intelligence community; & once more a target of the Three Kings the crime bosses who between them run Glasgows underworld. Lennox must again draw on the violent war-damaged part of his personality that he has tried to keep buried in order to survive...