The Heart of Danger


Dorrie was an English girl who’s body has turned up in a mass grave. Bill Penn is a private detective and is hired by her grief-stricken mother to go to war-torn Yugoslavia to find out what happened to her daughter. When he discovers the identity of the man who killed her Penn has to decide how much he want’s him brought to justice.

The story is told in flash-back from the point of view of Henry Carter (one of the main characters in The Contract, and he also popped up in Home Run) who is compiling a document for MI6 about the events of the recent past. You can tell early on that it’s not a book that will have a happy ending…