The Verbier Principle

After a robbery from the chalet safe in Verbier, Switzerland, of author Karl Raimond. whose body is later found after a hit and run incident in a nearby street, private detective Oliver Miles is called upon by top London businessman, Theodore Cruickshank, to attend the scene and try and pick up any trace of who stole the items from the safe. Cruickshank a banker and industrialist, well-known for setting up a charity awareness of ill-treatment in some parts of Africa of its indigenous population, has also been in the news for corruption after Raimond, once his friend let it be known that all was not as it should be concerning the funds for the charity. Darker more sinister secrets emerge, that involve terrorist activities in London and Zurich. Corruption and top government ministers are mentioned and Oliver begins to feel under pressure like never before. Cruickshank names a list of people which Oliver is authorised to meet and a few others that he isn't. What emerges is a web of deceit and a trail of misleading information that conspires against Oliver and in the end after an attempt on his life, to bring matters to a head and the perpetrators to justice, Oliver is further thwarted by an unknown enemy.