Journalism student Simon Gregory is in a coma after what looks like a suicide attempt. Photographs appear to link him with a sex party at the Prime Minister’s country residence. When reluctant sleuth Dominic Delingpole investigates, all is not as it seems. Someone wanted Simon dead. And as Dominic probes further, his own life is at stake when he’s drawn into a tale of corruption, political intrigue and murder that infiltrates the genteel heart of middle England.