As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. There s no such thing as easy money. Gazi is now standing trial for war crimes in the international court in The Hague. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster, Dragan Gazi. Now Gazi s family want more from him: in exchange for keeping Hammond s dirty little secret, they want him to find for them the man who holds the key to all the money Gazi squirreled away before he was locked up. After his life was saved, his men went on to slaughter thousands in the Balkan civil wars. No sooner has Hammond tracked him down, than Piravani has disappeared again. But Italian financier, Marco Piravani, doesn t want to be found, not by Hammond, not by anyone. Only then will he be able to lay the past to rest. His pursuit will take him first to the Hague, and then to Milan to find the Italian, and then finally back to the scene of his crime, Belgrade, where he must confront the decisions he once so easily took.