Puppet on a chain Allen Lane Setting up a base at

Setting up a base at Kerguelen Island down towards the bottom of the Southern Hemisphere

dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers

from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra

the atheistic Daniel is wrestling with something his 'cold philosophy' cannot explain - something unearthly he thought he saw while swimming for help in the Pacific

In the 28th novel in Donna Leons bestselling Commissario Brunetti series

Puppet on a chain Allen Lane Setting up a base atFrom the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king. With enormous skill the atmosphere is built up: Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; women in distress and above all murder. 'In our business there is no such thing as a person who never makes a mistake.'