Subtitled: How Danny Rook met an obsessed man, lost a mentor (but gained a friend) and how, when his worst predictions just kept coming true, he quit again."The cost-cutters have arrived in Whitehall. Danny Rook’s job has gone for the chop, so they’ve transferred him to the Department of Trade to vet export licenses. But life is never simple for Danny. Why will nobody see the connection between a Russian germ warfare scientist who has defected in Paris, a Canadian artillery expert running a project in Iraq, and some high-grade steel tubes being machined in a factory near Birmingham? And oh yes – Danny has just rescued a damsel in distress..."