With a new introduction by the author. For Davina Graham a holiday in Venice is a rare chance to relax and be happy with her lover. Since her husband's murder by the KGB, she has worked and struggled hard to become the first female head of the SIS. But her new happiness is short-lived. On the Grand Canal a top US diplomat and his daughter are blown to pieces by a bomb with no apparent motive. Then begins a chain of random murders which seem to lead directly to MoscowYet Davina's old adversary, KGB head Igor Borisov, is equally baffled. For who or what is behind this campaign of terror?