A case from Stevie McCabe's past, a world where mobile phones were a luxury and politics were changing in ways that nobody could control. Engaged by a sacked civil servant and his unlikely Asian-American partner, a simple - dull, even - case of unfair dismissal escalates when the former Soviet secret police become involved.But, nothing - including the KGB - is as it seems, which McCabe learns as he uncovers quasi-official conspiracies, false trails leading overseas, the disappearance of huge sums of government money and the strange marital arrangements of the woman who smokes for Scotland.And why is an organisation that acts as a front for the provisional IRA taking such an interest in McCabe's business? And then there's he fact that he's wanted for murder......
