Frank Delaney, investigative journalist and sometime spy, is on assignment in Phuket, Thailand, in the aftermath of the tsunami that killed thousands of people, foreigners and locals alike. Disaster victim identification teams from police forces across the globe have descended on this idyllic holiday location to carry out their gruesome work. Delaney discovers that, against all logic, someone is trying to prevent identification of one of the bodies lying in makeshift beachside morgues. His search for the reason follows a trail through Thailand's seedy child sex trade to an elaborate cover-up in Germany and France, where those with everything to lose use increasingly desperate measures to stop him dead.

MICHAEL E. ROSE is a Canadian journalist and broadcaster whose reporting and travel have brought him throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, India, southeast Asia and Australia. He has worked for major media organizations around the world, including the CBC, Maclean's, UPI, Radio France International, the Sydney Morning Herald and Reuters. From 2003-2006 he was Chief of Communications and Publications for Interpol, based at the agency's headquarters in Lyon, France.

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