When his wife betrays him, Leonard McCoy flees to planet Ssan in outer space - where assasination is a time-honoured tradition. Now his ex-wife is trapped in Ssan, and McCoy holds her fate in his hands.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.
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