Ed Crowe, an English-born travel agent living on Oakville, Ontario, Canada, maintains his involvement as a special consultant with the British Secret Intelligence Service-MI6-taking advantage of his Canadian passport. His prior involvement and success in negotiating with the Kurdish terrorist organization in Turkey, the PKK, has identified him as the man for a new and more dangerous role. Traveling to Libya, he searches to bring back to Britain the killer of a British police officer from the uprising of the Libyan Embassy in London, in April 1984. While not resulting in complete success, the resulting actions take him to Sofia, Bulgaria, and Paris, France, during which he tries to maintain and grow the love with Carolyn Andrews, the daughter of Lord Stonebridge-the head of MI6.