Tweed also suspects a foreign power is involved．The tempo ratchets up fe rociously，With Paula，Bob Newman and his team，he travels to Marseilles，where mu rde r is a way of life．A desperate battle takes place on a mysterious island．Escaping the city alive by a hairsbreadth，they race back home．

A simple request becomes a nightmare．One by one，fou r brutally ravaged skeletons are discovered．Two of them on Dartmoor,near the mansion of Drago Volkanian，Armenian founder of a giant supermarket chain—and an armaments plant．With Paula Grey,his assistant,Tweed pursues the unknown killer with the same relentlessness the mu rderer showed in destroying his victims．Among othe rs，he interrogates the strange Volkanian clanLucinda，Dragostepdaughte5 steely and mood and her elder brother Larry,the company managing director．Again he meets Michael，the younger brother,who is still unable to speak．He is suffering from amnesia—or so say two psychiatrists．Unlike Buchanan，Tweed insists the horrific murders are not random．A link must exist between the fou r victims．Tweed also suspects a foreign power is involved．The tempo ratchets up fe rociously，With Paula，Bob Newman and his team，he travels to Marseilles，where mu rde r is a way of life．A desperate battle takes place on a mysterious island．Escaping the city alive by a hairsbreadth，they race back home．Who iS the sadistic killer?One eerie climax follows anotheCould MichaeI be the key?