| Detective Chief Inspector Harry Fathersof Scotland Yard s Serious Crimes Squadis articulate, canny, tenacious and onestep ahead of his so-called superiors. Heruns his squad with a firm hand, jugglingas many cases in a day as there are hours,and laces his impeccable integrity with astrong dose of irreverencc. When Whitehall summons him it s fora briefing on the disappearance of Dr.Michael Sampson, a British research sci-entist on loan to a New York-based thinktank. Sampson has disappeared. Since hewas working on satellite technology--specifically SDI, or "Star Wars"--White-hall wants some answers, and they sendFathers to New York to get them. "Given his work," says the steely-eyedman from the Home Office, "his disap-pearance must be a crime, and the list ofpossible perpetrators begins with theKGB and gets more outlandish fromthere." In New York, Fathers finds that the situation involves the FBI as much as the NYPD. The "official" line is that Samp- son dropped out of sight of his own accord; unfortunately all of his papers have also disappeared in a series of "co- incidental" burglaries. Cover up seems to be the name of the game. |
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