When journalist Ronnie Bart visits a Rome clinic, where one of his colleagues lies drugged, he becomes involved in a series of adventures in which fear and death are never far away. In a Copenhagen discotheque, Bart meets a young millionaire, Paul Arved, and goes with him and his "flying circus" of girls and hangers-on in a private jet to the South of France. He then follows Arved to Sicily, where the story reaches a violent climax.
Scotland and France have always had a close affinity, so it was only natural that Richard Grayson, a Scot by birth, should have taken a special interest when reading history at Cambridge in that most colourful period of French history, La Belle Epoque. All his Inspector Gautier novels are set in that period. He now lives in London.