Résumé: In the not too distant future, flooded London remains a bustling metropolis of wealth, workers and wrongdoers. Leo Noiret is a minder, a heavy for hire, whose job provides him with a lot of contacts but not necessarily many friends. Vincent Drakenberg is the bored heir to the Drakenberg Corporation, a hugely successful and influential bio-engineering firm, who falls for the feisty Gina Cassel, co-owner of a two woman hydrobike courier service. Alexandra Bastet is a notoriously powerful underworld figure with a secret past that even she doesn’t fully know. Bastet hires Noiret to use his contacts to discover why a 19 year old girl with a London accent barely survived an aero-car accident in Egypt 17 years before and so explain that past to her.