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After dumping his girlfriend solicitor Harry Venn is approached by high-powered advocate Gina Hawkes to find Joe Collins,who she claims can prove the innocence of her client,murder suspect Stevie Quirke. Venn is reluctant,especially since Gina and her firm do not appear to exist on paper but is intrigued when Quirke claims to have news of Venn's brother Mark,apparently killed in a police shoot-out years earlier. Leaving the prison Venn is surprised to see Paul Hillman,a policeman whom he also thought was dead. Next day he survives a bomb blast at his office. Meanwhile Opposition Leader Alexander Wentworth goes on television to attack PM Brian Worsley,whose supposed corruption and bribery have caused nation-wide riots.
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Despite the warning phone call telling him to get out the insurance company claim the explosion was caused by a gas leak. Venn gets his investigator Frank Hanna to break into Gina's doctor's office and find out more about her from her files but heavies led by Jason Styles,who knew Venn's brother,chase him away. Venn seeks out barrister Sir Nigel Fountain,who says that Gina is his daughter and an espouser of lost causes. Whilst Stevie is murdered in prison Venn and his ex-wife Lauren learn their teenage son Michael has been arrested for drug-dealing. Eventually Venn tracks Gina down in Paris,where she has stumbled upon the corpse of newly released prisoner Tannzir,who was convicted of the random murder of Jennifer Moscati. Venn and Gina are threatened by Hillman,who is shot dead by a mysterious saviour.
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After killing Hillman the mysterious saviour disappears but Venn finds a picture of Jason Styles in Tanzir's possession. Gina explains that Sir Nigel is her adoptive father and her real parents were killed twenty years earlier. Her mother, Jennifer Moscati, was murdered by Tanzir on the orders of Styles, who, she believes, also killed her father as well as being the real killer of Venn's brother. At a dinner given by Wentworth's sponsors Styles also shows up. Venn and Gina return to London where James Morpeth, one of Wentworth's supporters, sends Styles to kill Gina, but she recognises him and escapes, believing that Sir Nigel is also in on the plot. She meets Venn and Frank Hanna and they go to the house in Kent where, twenty years earlier, the killing of Venn's brother took place, to meet the only survivor of that night, wheelchair-bound Ben Lander. He points a gun at Venn, who is saved by Hanna.
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After Ben Lander has told Gina that Morpeth and a man named Cockburn visited the night before his uncle and Mark were killed Venn drops Frank,wounded in the shoot-out,off at hospital. Gina gets a call from Joe Collins,whom she and meet in hiding. He says that Styles paid him and Stevie to kill her but instead they decamped with his lap-top,which he gives Venn. Gina confronts Sir Nigel,an open supporter of Wentworth,over her parents' death but,after he has said they would not oblige with Cockburn's request,he is killed. Venn hacks into the lap-top and discovers that Mark is alive and set to kill Wentworth next day at his press conference. Gate-crashing the event Venn sees Mark with a gun though the victim is not the intended one and ultimately nothing is resolved.
Harry Venn
Gina Hawkes
Elspeth Verney
James Morpeth
Alexander Wentworth
Frank Hanna
Jason Styles
DI Fenton Russell
Brian Worsley
Sir Nigel Fountain