Kjersti, Norwegian extreme runner and journalist, arrives in Cyprus to run the 350 kilometres across the island in a fortnight. Aris and Iphi, two ambitious but junior local journalists, must report on every stage of Kjersti and her ex-boyfriend's run.
Eleni is the architect niece of the head of the local Orthodox Church. Archbishop Ioannis has her constructing an immense building to dominate Nicosia and make his memory immortal, although he must find money to ensure completion.
Meanwhile, Evdokia, wife of a humble parish priest, has personal reasons to resent the Archbishop. She sees his monument as wasteful self-aggrandisement. Its cost could alleviate social suffering. She plots the building's downfall.
Stephane designs systems for Dmitriy, an Armenian-Russian, which deliver an elaborate illegal money-laundering scheme hidden within legal sports betting. Terrified of the criminal consequences he seeks an escape, and ends up working for, and pursued by, Eleni.
Beneath the surface calm of a divided Cyprus, ambition, lust, betrayal, greed and corruption fester. Once unintended connections unravel, no one knows what this toxic mix will reveal.
[This is the fourth in the Corruption Series of novels. It is set in Cyprus, Spain and France]
