Jan-Willem Hendrylxx die a mysterious death on a small island off the coast of England and leaves a multimillion dollar fortune to a small africultual college in Kenya and two distant relatives. Both heirs disappear under suspicious circumstances. Who is Hendrykxx, how did he acquire his money, and where are his relatives? Max Stufford, head of the larges private epionage company in Europe, sets up operations in Africa and proceeds to uncover a tangled werb of mourder, conspiracy, impresonation, and subversion which characterizes this riveting tale of adventure and intrigue at the highest--and lowest--levels of interanational deception.