About This Book
When Martin Soutar's death was reported there was every indication he had committed suicide until Inspector Wishart of the Edinburgh constabulary found the name of Stephane Van Oost among the dead man's papers. He began to recognise a strong similarity to the murder of Van Oost ten years earlier and, once more, MI6, together with Interpol, were involved in picking up the threads of the Van Oost case; a case which had remained open when they had been unable to locate the perpetrators, Yan and Olga Weskha, KGB agents. Any suspicions that the two Russians may have been responsible were instantly squashed when Alan Graham of MI6 received word of the Weskhas having been shot dead in Buenos Aires on the same night as Martin Soutar died. From then onwards, their efforts focused on 'the lion', the codename of another KGB agent and one they knew had acted as Van Oost's contact to whom he had passed on military aircraft tracking information from around Europe after switching from his former allegience with MI6. Richard Darcy who had been involved in the Van Oost case, agreed to come out of retirement to assist in the search for Anatolie Mikhailovsky ('the lion'), working alongside Peter Dun-Paterson, both of whom were in Edinburgh at the time of a second murder which they agreed bore Anatolie Mikhailovsky's stamp and from when Richard saw a man closely resembling him, this sighting extended to Rome and finally Buenos Aires with Mikhailovsky making a hasty exit from Edinburgh. Meanwhile, following in the wake of the double shooting in Buenos Aires, it soon became apparent who was responsible. Vivienne Brucke, Stephane Van Oost's daughter, had been there and staying in the same hotel as the Weskhas and with evidence piling up against her, events moved swiftly, gathering momentum in the neck and neck race between MI6 and the KGB to find her; the latter in revenge for their fellow agents' murders and MI6 primarily concerned for her safety.
