Christopher Leopold Brent returns to his neck of the woods, the picturesque township of Breighton-In-The-Dip situated in the Roode Valley. No welcome awaits him for he has history. Not that he expects one either, for good memories are few. But he is there for a purpose - to kill someone! Brent is soon aware that this consignment is different from others undertaken on an international scale, one that hints of treachery afoot. With the arrival of Rolf Schumann, with whom he served as a mercenary in the tiny African country of Moromba, tends to add to his suspicions. Together they take on the people that employ them - The Agency, based somewhere in the Roode Valley. But is Rolf Schumann the trusted friend and ally he makes himself out to be?