"She was only the beginning...... No clothes. No name. No sign of life. No records. Who is this girl on Joppa Rocks? The local police are baffled at their failure to put a name to the corpse they refer to as 'Miss X', Identification comes from an unusual source - MI6 - who recognize the dead girl as one of their most promising agents Elke Kohl who is based in Leipzig Germany. How has she come to be washed up on a beach at the east end of Edinburgh thousands of miles away? Richard Hartley, Assistant Controller of MI6 wants revenge for the killing of his agent and sends Commander Hugh McFaul to find those responsible and bring them to justice. McFaul's trail leads him to Central Europe and the seedy world of drug trafficking and the white slave trade."
Assisting him is the very dangerous Mhairi McClure.