John Parks is back - but for how long? Following The Painswick Conspiracy, Parks has settled down to a seemingly uneventful life in France with his live-in lover, Cynthia, or so he thinks. His precarious existence is shattered without warning - she is kidnapped and against his better instincts, he is lured back to Painswick, a sleepy Cotswold village that he used to call home. He returns to his cottage, Belleview, to look for answers - who has taken...