Once you’ve killed, how do you live with yourself? Once you have worked for the CIA what else can you do? Kate has kept that side of her life a complete secret from her husband. Now it’s time to leave. Time to build herself another fiction – the life of the stay-at-home wife of a man who works at the heart of international banking services in Europe. But she has lost none of her ‘tradecraft’, which is just as well.

The job in Luxembourg is demanding and Dexter leaves her and their children to their own devices. She finds herself looking for ways to join in with other displaced families. Two new friends – well, among the ex-pat community it’s better to think of them as temporary acquaintances – have taken a shine to them both. Bill brings a degree of excitement back into Kate's life, that is, until professional alarm bells begin to ring. Even her husband appears to have a second life he has kept hidden. All of this new life is definitely not what it appears to be – as ex-colleague Hayden confirms.

It’s all very well meeting up with Bill, and his wife Julia, in Paris, but why should her husband or anyone else care whether the Colonel is dead or not! How many pieces are there to this jigsaw puzzle? In the end you’ll have been told about them all.

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