It's the job of a lifetime: 120,000 pounds a year, a top-of-the-range BMW, and the chance to work with charismatic sportswear billionaire Nathan Strauss. But on the very day that Chris Treiger celebrates his new job with Britain's most powerul PR firm, Nathan Strauss stuns the corporate world by falling off the balcony of his ninth-floor hotel suite.Chris now finds himself reporting to Nathan's brother, Jacob, and his sinister spin doctor - a man whose loyalty borders on the obsessive. Meanwhile, investigating the bizarre death of a leading financial analyst, Chris's former lover Judith Laing discovers he was on the point of revealing damaging evidence about Chris's new bosses. Chris refuses to believe her - until another death occurs...