With his life in danger, MI6’s young spy Alex must leave the country. He accepts a mission in Cuba, where he crosses paths with Alexei Sarov – a former Soviet general with plans for a nuclear holocaust.
Young MI6 agent Alex travels to Venice to track down Scorpia, the secret organization his father was involved with. After being recruited by them he learns more about their large-scale political demands as well as the truth about his father.
She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigato…