An honest man wouldn't be found dead with contraband diamonds. So what is Nick Storey to do with the bag of them he finds in the personal effects of a fellow customs officer? Has the dead man's widow been murdered too, and is Nick's own life now in danger? Bringing in Special Branch always disrupts Customs and Excise's other cases. Yet keeping them out may put Nick in breach of the law, too. Only WPC Rosemary Johnson understands, and soon she becomes the only friend Nick can trust. They must try to do the work of professional detectives, even as they find evidence that the killers they are up against are professionals. Together they find the diamonds are from Russia, that love is forever - and that the fingers of the Cold War have reached Nick's own superiors, and the last person he should have told anything at all.