Detective Inspector Eleanora Sanderson is given the baffling case of six prisoners confined in one prison, all dying within minutes of each other, and now she is ordered to assist the new Superintendent Thomas Speedwell with his ongoing investigations of the viciously efficient and deadly assassin known as 'The Ghost'

Sutaki Oshiro, a young ex- kamikaze pilot didn't want to commit enforced suicide, so on his first mission, he deserts. Sixty odd years later, he's in a waterfront bar in Turkey where he has been staring at something for the past three years.... What and why?

Sam Masters the I.T. Manager at Police Headquarters is on holiday, and he witnesses this bizarre scene in that bar. The result of his observation was momentous and life changing to him, and his crucial mistake changed the lives of many others.