After a series of business failures and a disgraced career Steele, a retired British officer, is forced back into the service by a blackmail scheme that has overshadowed his entire life. His choice is simple: impersonate the glamorous playboy Ross Callum – the most flamboyant agent provocateur ever to operate out of the sinister city of Tangier – or spend the rest of his life in a military prison. As Steele works his way into his his new character he learns of the deadly assassin whose only aim is to murder Ross Callum. Steele’s mission is to draw this incensed man into the open. Over the crowded quaysides and through the twisting alleyways of Tangier, begins to realise that no one can be trusted…