A prisoner is allowed to visit his dying mother. Whilst in jail he had planned a most daring kidnap involving the wife of a member of the government. Brett Clifton, one of the world's most eminent private detectives, is helping the security services at The World Finance Conference and he is asked by a new friend to help him find his kidnapped partner. The detective realises the two kidnaps are connected and the story describes the twists and turns as he endeavours to solve the two crimes, in a fast moving plot that keeps the reader eager to find out what happens next.