On leave from the British Security Service, Laura March is murdered in Switzerland with a poison pellet shot from a rifle. In John Gardner's 1993 continuation of Ian Fleming's series, James Bond and Swiss agent "Flicka" von Grusse are called in to investigate. Noticing an identical rose and note at the funerals of four high-profile personalities, all assassinated within a week, Bond and Flicka connect March to world-famous actor David Dragonpol. Tracking him to his Rhine castle, however, Bond finds plenty of trouble, and he may have the wrong man.