When hurricane Katrina wipes out his fledgling new business Willis “Mac” McCall is forced back into his previous career of international construction management. The only job he can get quickly is managing a troubled development project that in Paris, a city where he has a history.
When Mac arrives at the project things go from bad to worse. Then one of the project financiers is murdered and he finds himself at the pointed end of the police investigation. Moving from suspect to prime suspect he comes under increasing pressure to find a way to prove his innocence. With few friends and the police closing in on him he searches desperately for a way to resist the increasing pressure.
D...When hurricane Katrina wipes out his fledgling new business Willis “Mac” McCall is forced back into his previous career of international construction management. The only job he can get quickly is managing a troubled development project that in Paris, a city where he has a history.
When Mac arrives at the project things go from bad to worse. Then one of the project financiers is murdered and he finds himself at the pointed end of the police investigation. Moving from suspect to prime suspect he comes under increasing pressure to find a way to prove his innocence. With few friends and the police closing in on him he searches desperately for a way to resist the increasing pressure.
Drawing on his skills as political fixer Mac sets about protecting himself the only way he knows. As he does he finds himself drawn ever deeper into the complex origins of the project’s problems, an affair that has raged on for centuries. Using all the contacts he can find he slowly uncovers a mysterious cabal of people who will do anything to prevent completion of his project. Only by confronting the past and his present fears can Mac prove his innocence and secure his future.
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