Breathtaking adventure from the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award-winner. Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the women he loves from an evil drugs baron, Riccardo Xaberra. In New York Jack teams up with his old ally Liam Mallows and Jesus, a drug dealer who can help them get to Xaberra. The search takes them to Xaberra's home town in Mexico where the Day of the Dead is being celebrated. But Jack's lover and Liam's sister, Deirdre, has been kidnapped by Xaberra and his wealth and resources are going to make rescue almost impossible.