A relaxing round of golf is interrupted by an assassin with mysterious motivations...

Two golfers playing a round of golf are shot at by a sniper. Investigation indicates the shots came from a knot of trees alongside one of the fairways. Days later one of the players, Philip Meredith, is nearly run down in the street, a week later he is again shot at whilst on a sales trip in a country area of Victoria. Being an upright citizen with, he believes, no enemies he is utterly perplexed by these attacks.

During one attack he hears one of his given names uttered by one of his attackers, so he is definitely their selected target, but why? Then he receives a message from a stranger who says he has the answer to the mystery, but during their meeting they realise they are both at risk.

There is an exciting chase as they are pursued through country Victoria to Melbourne by an organization determined to kill them both. Meredith has to reach London, alive, before everything can be resolved.