ABOUT
THE BOOK

Lord Digby Banks and his crony Lord Rupert Crook-Smith, ex-colonial governors, decide to assassinate a few corrupt individuals in Africa. A hit team is organised in London, and targets are selected in Kenya using the news media. Things go wrong and the Lords are caught, but capital punishment prevents extradition, and in England, political expediency saves them from embarrassment.

Encouraged by their apparent immunity, a second mission is launched by the Lords to deal with corporate crime in America and people start dying. The causes are traced to them and the U.S. Attorney-General seeks extradition, but in the final analysis an American citizen is prosecuted, and an unusual verdict is reached…