When Charles Gardner takes his sailboat on a solo trip to Monaco, all he wants is a chance to forget. To recover from his wife’s death. Then he sees something he shouldn’t. A luxury yacht. A beautiful woman. A bullet through the head. But in the playground of the ultra-rich, his word counts for nothing against that of billionaire industrialist Xaing Zhu. Gardner has only two things in his favour: Inspector Madelaine Duchamp, who thinks he just might be telling the truth, and his own skills as a surveillance expert. As the world’s press gathers to cover the the inaugural test of the massive ITER fusion reactor, Charles and Madelaine have only hours to prevent disaster. But first, they have to stay alive.