"Still new to the top secret Overlappers intelligence team and on her first "hit" alone, Lucie Musilova has an attack of conscience and nearly botches the operation, taking a bullet wound before finishing off her target. Though her injuries are minor, she is chastized for her carelessness and assigned desk duties. Here, she investigates a number of disappearances of European women from Britain - women all missing without trace until the body of one is discovered, raped and murdered. Lucie learns that tens of women have disappeared, all with little investigation."