"Jack's back in this six-part thriller which takes us from the cultural atoll of Fitzroy to the bustling city of Manila in the Philippines, where Jack's on-again-off-again lover Linda Hillier has landed a job as a foreign correspondent for an Australian newspaper... Seemingly out of the blue, Jack is engaged to track down a missing man, Wayne Dilthey. The investigation goes pear-shaped when his quarry is killed before his eyes. When the client becomes an enigma and the job is revealed to be an elaborate set up, Jack finds himself the prime suspect for murder"--Container.