Michael West ma poważny problem. Jego ostatnie zlecenie poszło pozornie bez komplikacji – zastrzelił w Londynie osobę, na która dostał kontrakt. Bo West jest płatnym zabójcą. Ale w chwilę po tym zdarzeniu na miejscu pojawiła się policja. Jakby ktoś ich ostrzegł. Po co? By usidlić Westa?
Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, Maria's killer has never been found. Meanwhile,
Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides