When the bloated body of a leading anarchist is discovered floating in one of Bologna's hidden canals following a police raid it seems that most of the city is pointing the finger in the direction of the police. But when private investigator Daniel Leicester receives a call from the dead man's lover he follows a trail that begins in the 1970s and leads all the way to the rotten heart of the present-day Bolognese establishment. Beneath the beauty of the city Bologna has a dark underside and Daniel must unravel a web of secrets deceit and corruption - before he is caught in it himself.

Part of the Daniel Leicester series.