The present reminds B.L. of the past, when a rapist is attacking young socialites and B.L. finds himself drawn out of retirement and into detective work.
One of B.L.'s childhood friends is now a Middle Eastern queen, she is being stalked by assassins after her husband, an arms dealer, is blown up aboard their royal yacht.
Stryker's secretary gets him into a complex case involving her jailed brother, her brother's jailed lover, a murder, and the murder victim's fiancé, a wealthy detective buff who's eager to help B.L. find the killer.