Fishermen on holiday had been known to forget all else, but it did seem a little odd that Trevor Bowling's employers should show so little concern when he failed to return from a business trip to Norway. Sir Abercrombie Lewker, the well-known actor-manager, was rather pleased at being asked to make enquiries for him, and he was not deterred by the series of rather odd incidents in which he was involved even before he set foot on board the S.S. Leda. But these were nothing to what he found in Norway. However, his detective instincts, his mountaineering skill and his physical endurance had by no means deserted him and he was to need them all before he finally tracked down Trevor Bowling and the mysterious 'Planets' whose crazy plot could have destroyed half Europe.

Sir Abercrombie is at the top of his form, and Glyn Carr takes him, in this latest book, to the mountains and fjords of Norway, where he is as much in control of the situation as he is on the boards at home.