When you're a private detective like Martin Jackson and life's dealing you all the wrong cards, you can never afford to say 'no' to a case." "Two strangers come through his door on that fateful day. One sad husband looking for his missing wife and a gorgeous redhead anxious to find her little sister and a stolen book." "The investigation takes the PI from London to Amsterdam and then to New Orleans and New York, as the jobs curiously coincide. Then there's Cornelia: a woman who combines the roles of hit-woman, strip-tease artist and book collector. A woman whose path it's better not to cross. No wonder things are starting to turn sour for Jackson.