 Sean Dillon is now married and has retired. Or so he thinks. But Brigadier Ferguson has got word of a sinister plot. Members of the royal family are to be shot. Is the IRA involved? Or old guard Russian leaders? Or middle East fundamentalists? In any case the hit man is ice-cold John Engel, Sean s nemesis. The consequences are tragic. Is there a place for love in such a world? Sean, Engel, Hannah Berstein, all seem to give it a desperate try.