Chris Ludlow is troubled by various problems, not least those relating to his girlfriend, Jane, and her unstable ex-husband. In search of a publisher for the memoirs of Derek Headlam, a renowned and prolific art faker, Chris secures a contract. Within days the publisher is murdered, and Chris and his brother, Max, are warned at the point of a gun to abandon the project. Are Headlam's former partners in a scheme to sell his fakes into...