March 1953. Alexander is walking through the streets of London with a bomb in his hand. It is destined for Marshal Tito, during his controversial visit to Great Britain. Alexander's story began several months earlier, when his mother was struck by a car and instantly killed. Trying to understand why and how his mother, who was in an institution for senile elderly people, wound up so far from her home, Alexander finds himself caught up in a spiral of terror involving the British secret service, strange Serbian nationalists, and the island of Majorca... all of which culminate, several months later, with Alexander finding himself on the bank of the Thames, holding a bag with a bomb in it...

In the aftermath of his mother's death, Alexander finds himself sucked into the crazy world of espionage. He is sure of only two things: that his life is in danger and that everyone around him is playing some kind of game. Their game. First and foremost Vanessa, the British secret agent who has recently become Alexander's lover.