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Handcuffed and seething with fury, Doctor David Meynell is driven to Reverence police headquarters. So begins the murder hunt, which leads across four thousand miles and back thirty-five years to Danton Court. Meynell is a target. Men marked for death stumble to his apartment. But as the secret of the Pompadour Vase is revealed, Meynell's life depends on Meek, the fastidious Whitehall heavy. And when the moment of truth comes, Meek is unprepared...