First published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning. Summer, 1937. Fred Rowland''s peaceful holiday is Cornwall is derailed when a fellow hotel guest and film star is found dead. Fred soon learns that this death took place under suspicious circumstances and finds himself tied up in the police investigation. When his old flame, Secret Service agent Iris Barnes arrives, it becomes clear that this murder has links to the political turmoil of the Spanish Civil War. Fred and Iris begin to follow the trail of Republican revolutionaries in Barcelona. As they pin together events, they realise that the murder may have been connected to the treacherous trail they embarked upon in Barcelona. As Europe inches closer towards international conflict, will Fred and Iris make it out of Spain alive?
