'Marcel (Mark) Smith private investigator, ex-police officer, Vietnam veteran arrives at the airport a few minutes late to pick up his love, wedding coordinator Belle Saint James. Belle is not there even though she clearly travelled on the plane. There is no way she would have left her suitcase behind. Something is wrong. Marcel moves into action. Working closely with the police, using CCTV, other technologies and basic police methods it soon emerges that Belle has been abducted. Aware of the potential danger Belle is in and the need to find her as soon as possible, Marcel works frantically to locate Belle and find out who took her and for what purpose. Meanwhile, Belle regains consciousness to find she is tied up hand and foot, gagged, has something over her head and is lying in a very uncomfortable position in an extremely smelly environment. She is not impressed. She realises that she has been kidnapped. She can't work out who would abduct her or why. It has to be a mistake. What part does the Arabian sheikh Karim al Maktabi play? And who is Ben?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.