"There's a man with a gun standing in my garden. I want something done about it." When a man breaks into Molly Chambers' house she tells the police that she has never seen him before. Ex-DI Alec Friedman - her honorary nephew - isn't so sure. Molly has lived an eventful life, as the wife of a diplomat, and he knows she is still haunted by the horrors of more than one war. Alec and his blind wife, Naomi, want to help, but prickly...