Hugo Bishop: He's not a cop, nor a private eye. He simply shows up to help. He's the figure at the edge of the floodlights as a body is pulled from the river. He's the brilliant fashion plate who knocks elbows with psychopaths. Wielding a pungent sense of humor, he pursues danger in an arena of exotic intrigues and and deadly pleasures. In Bishop's high-risk world, "The only thing worth going for is checkmate."
This is a London-based series. The main character, Hugo Bishop, is an author of books about personality under stress and an observer of other people’s problems. His sidekick is his Oxford-educated assistant, Vera Gorringe.
Investigating the beautiful and mysterious Melody Carr, whose lovers have a habit of dying in suspicious circumstances, Hugo Bishop enters her life posing as a potential lover. But he is soon caught by her deadly powers of seduction.
In this chess game of life and death, Hugo Bishop has to get one move ahead in a trail of murder and intrigue that leads to a twisted mind and a secret that threatens the whole world. Only the cooler-than-cool Hugo Bishop was capable of reaching 'check-mate' in a sinister world of move and counter-move, beautiful women and fast-living. There is no other hero quite like Hugo Bishop, who has previously appeared in Knight Sinister, Queen in Danger, and Bishop in Check.
Hugo Bishop: He's not a cop, nor a private eye. He simply shows up to help. He's the figure at the edge of the floodlights as a body is pulled from the river. He's the brilliant fashion plate who knocks elbows with psychopaths. Wielding a pungent sense of humor, he pursues danger in an arena of exotic intrigues and deadly pleasures. In Bishop's high-risk world, "The only thing worth going for is checkmate."