Tom Furey is a London police officer who works as a personal protection officer. He is called in at short notice to take over the protection of a deputy minister who is about to take a trip to South Africa. During the trip the minister and his assistant are kidnapped, something that Tom is suppose to prevent. Everything has gone wrong during what should have been a straight forward trip. Sannie van Rensburg is his opposite in the South Africa police who is protecting the Defence minister and they set off, against orders, to track down the kidnappers.

This is the premise of the story but there is much more as believed truths are not so true when looked at closer.

The characters of this book make it a good read, Tom a dedicated officer who knows his career now hangs in the balance and Sannie a mother as much as she is a police officer. She knows what she is doing is wrong and she should be following orders, but also knows that sitting around doing nothing is just as wrong. They have to make a hard choice but do what they think is right.

This is a complex story that switches between England and South Africa with side trips to Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia and Malawi. It's all connected. But there are also some dark aspects to this story, ones that very real in this world of ours.

Enjoyable, but long.