A girl was killed in a luxury hotel room, strangled with silver wire. Her killer is a famous, very expensive killer, a lover of music and luxurious life, whom the FBI and Interpol have been unsuccessfully chasing for twenty years. Now Eve Dallas, a lieutenant of the New York police, takes up the case. She knows the killer, but this is not enough to unravel a series of seemingly senseless murders. She senses that someone powerful enough is involved, and the blow will ultimately fall on her husband Roark. The novel was also published as The Treason of Death