Who would sever a tongue from a living mouth? Or kill a pathetic, homeless old man? Or frighten a young doctor into silence? The questions are piling up, and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them - especially when he's warned off by his boss in the local police, by Scotland Yard, and by increasingly professional death threats. The pattern that emerges is of a powerful organisation with links to the throne and the White House. And all that stands against them is McHarg - and a discounted copper with nothing to lose.