Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, now makes an honest living as a charter skipper fishing in the magnificant Indian Ocean. Until suddenly men from a world he has put behind him plunge him once more into a deadly game. And he must play - for an unknown prize against undeclared odds - by the rules of violence and death which he once practised as an art. For of one thing he is certain: to fail is to die . . .
