On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a youngwoman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking atthe engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throwsacid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton,disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be,Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcolm told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway? And whois the enemy?
