Dr. Alexander Wolfe, a top genetic scientist involved in biological warfare research for the British army, recently had his life insured for 100,000. One night he drives over a Devon cliff in what at first appears to be a suicide. But neither his body nor the car is ever recovered.
Peter Manciple, an insurance adjuster for the cautious firm of Phelps, King & Troyte, is one of the people called down to Exmoor to investigate...the accident? But the army shows up, too. And so do a number of ruthless Israelis, and some equally ruthless Palestinians.
