Lenny Samuel, the Los Angeles private detective, is hired to investigate threats made to a famous film actress.

Philip Prowse began his professional life with the British Council, for whom he taught and trained teachers in Egypt, Portugal, Greece and Poland. Returning to the UK he became the principal of a large residential language school where he was responsible for a wide range of teacher training courses, as well as language courses for teenagers and adults. He has been writing throughout his career, and has been a full-time writer and trainer for the last fifteen years.