Valerie de Chavannes, a financiers daughter, summons Kayankaya to her Frankfurt villa and hires him to find her missing 16 year old daughter, who is alleged to be with an older man posing as an artist. It seems like a simple case: an upper class girl with a thirst for adventure. Then Kayankaya is hired to act as bodyguard to an author a publisher believes is under threat. Malik Rashid has written a novel about attitudes towards homosexuality in an Arabic country, and could be vulnerable to attacks by religious fanatics at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Together, the seemingly straightforward cases lead to murder, rape and abduction.
