Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends – and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead, having plunged from Lindsay’s tenth-floor hotel room, she is taken in for questioning by the police.
Hoping to clear her name by finding the real killer, Lindsay searches among hundreds of unruly union delegated for a murderer who may have struck one before. Along the war she uncovers a seething cauldron of blackmail, corruption and power abuse, all brought to the boil by her investigation.