A chance sighting in a café in Amsterdam gives solicitor Rosa Epton an unwelcome shock. At a nearby table sits an ex-client who should be behind bars having recently been sentenced to five years in prison. So what is Eddie Ruding doing in Amsterdam a few weeks later?On her return to England Rosa makes a few discreet enquiries only to draw a blank. But just as she has decided to try to put the matter out of her mind a newspaper report shocks her into action. Eddie Ruding has been found dead his crumpled body lying at the foot of the walls of Wandsworth Prison.