When Joe Delahunty falls from grace he lands with a thud – all gleefully recorded by Britain’s rapacious tabloids. And so when he heads for family in New York and finds his sanctuary rudely disturbed he instantly regrets the idle enquiries he’d been making into an old fraud uncovered on his travels. As two giants of the global energy business deploy deadly forces to close down his investigations New York’s Russian mob finds itself pitted against the city’s mafia – with Joe in the middle. Outgunned and with few friends, a pretty young PR executive, Anna Heuston, comes to his aid, casting the light of media enquiry on his foes in the hope that they’ll call off the dogs. But with the bodies piling up, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether or not it will work.