<p>First there is the killing of the minister of energy. Then the cop investigating the murder commits suicide. Fearing a conspiracy, the minister's lover hires pi Fish Pescado to find the killer. Then she goes missing. And Fish is being stonewalled by the cops because ...<br><br>... in the dark shadows of Cape Town there's another game being played out. A complex one involving Iranian agents, the theft of highly enriched uranium, and the kidnapping of a top scientist. Ex-spy Vicki Kahn is bribed by her former handler to track the terrorists. The hunt is deadly and nothing is what it seems. A sleeper has been awoken. isis is involved. So is the cia. There is chatter of a dirty bomb headed for Europe.<br><br>And Vicki is so lost in those constantly changing shadows that even her surfer-boy Fish can't find her.</p>