Waynfleet International specialize in those dirty deeds that governments don't like doing themselves. However, things are not going well for Lt Col Harry Delaney and his band of mercenaries. A botched job in Albania and mounting debts has forced them to take their riskiest assignment yet: to replace the ailing president of the former Soviet Republic of Azjikistan with his exiled daughter. The journey to Azjikistan takes Delaney and his motley crew from the streets of London, to Paris, Moscow, Las Vegas and Switzerland. En route, they encounter Russian agents, Islamist assassins, interfering spies, murderous thugs, a femme fatale, the Trans Siberian Express, and a despotic tyrant. Intrigue and murder follow Delaney and his team every step of the way, but with so much at stake, this is one job they cannot afford to mess up.