When an investment company loses millions of its clients' money through the collapse of an African copper mining venture, there are plenty of angry investors who are out for revenge. But did one of them go so far as to murder the company's most unscrupulous salesman, Lance Rackman, the man who sold them the worthless shares? And in particular, could Rackman's killer have been Bob Carson, a retired regimental sergeant major with an unblemished record? Carson certainly had a motive. Most of the local police force see it as an open and shut case, but it seems the truth is not so simple...