Sudden death lurks along the canals of Venice. That's what Don Micklem millionaire American playboy on the trail of a disappearing one-time British agent discovered the hard way. Had his quarry been murdered - or had he committed treason? Micklem's adventures his fight against a ruthless political organisation and his narrow escapes from violent death all set against a taut background of Venice's sinister waterways make a deep-freeze chiller of a book.