It was all a set-up, Neil Mallory — tough experienced veteran of more wars than he cared to remember — was in a new business now. That was why he watched so carefully when Anne Grant left the bar followed by two strangers.

          When he heard her cry out a few minutes later, Mallory knew it was time to rescue her. She was very grateful. So grateful she offered him a job. That was exactly what he was waiting for and that attack on her was all part of a new game of intrigue and violence. She could not know she was the key to everything.