When young Thomas Verity sets up his accountancy practice in a quiet market town in Southern England he is hoping for a peaceful bucolic existence..... .....Tom's quiet life is rudely shattered when he is innocently helping a client sort out his business affairs, and he is unsuspectingly caught up in a trail of criminal activity, including murder, money-laundering, kidnapping and drug-dealing..... .....this romantic thriller, which includes action in Australia, Brazil and Italy as well as England, reaches a climax when Tom is attacked in his Horsham office and left for dead..... .....a good read.....