Vic Warshawski is a karate expert and a keen marksman, a tough private eye in a tough city - Chicago In this case, forced on her by Aunt Rosa whom she loathes, she has to fight off an attempt to blind her with acid and to burn her in her own house as she becomes ever more deeply involved in the investigation into the Calvi scandal, a takeover bid for Ajax, a big insurance company and a billion dollars missing from the Vatican Bank