Pandora's Pension

The sudden death and hasty burial of a renowned business tycoon leads to the exposure of an enormous fraud, fatally damaging the security of his companies and their employees. Two recently appointed executives - an ambitious financier and a disgraced former policeman - attempt to trace and recover a missing fortune. Opening a cache of secret transactions takes them along a twisting trail of evidence in a race to avoid complete financial disaster. Their investigations unearth a dark history of very dangerous activities, involving arms dealing with the former Soviet Union and war crimes in the Balkans. A web of violence and embezzlement is woven around international tax havens and corrupt dealing in rare commodities by modern-day pirate traders in China and central Africa. And the mystery of the tycoon's reported death remains in Pandora's box.