The Rostov Constellation

To lose one of the world's most rakish yachts, an ex-navy fast strike craft, in a Cannes Film Festival poker game is careless. To steal her back is irresponsible. To then disappear with her in a storm is downright sinister. When Paul Marrick, specialist investigator of City skullduggery, is called in by Lloyds syndicate agent Harry Portwine to find the Moloch, he soon finds himself tangling with one of the Cote d'Azur's most dangerous gangs. Helping him, though, is Nuala Robinson, beautiful CEO of global entrepreneur and diamond collector Sir Armen Ovnanyan - and wife of Michael Ovnanyan, Sir Armen's son and the man who gambled away and then stole back the Moloch. Almost as beautiful as Nuala herself is the great diamond she always wears if nothing else: central pendant of the fabulous Rostov Constellation ....