In this sequel to Lying Crying Dying, former terrorist-turned-defector Pascual March is reluctantly back in the game. While lying low in Barcelona, changing his surname and avoiding those on both sides of the law eager to find him, he's become valuable to French intelligence as the only person still alive able to identify Syrian terrorist Daoud Najjar. Offered $100,000 or threatened with exposure, Pascual agrees to finger Najjar at the Russian-owned Mirakl Bank in Paris. But things go awry, and Pascual is soon on a potentially fatal course to Zurich and back, trusting only in haunting journalist Djemila, whose interests intersect with his, and finally turning to Mossad. Although Pascual's fate may never be in serious question--for the sake of keeping a potential series going--he suffers physical and emotional losses, and nearly all of the characters die, sometimes graphically, at each other's hands. Dark and bloody as it is, this is spy fiction of the highest order, with atmospheric backgrounds for a plot that ratchets up suspense with each twist and turn and a splendidly complex protagonist, who takes great risks and bluffs his way to the end in what may be a quest for atonement.