Description:Lucifer,
a paranoid young man, believes that he is Satan and has a remarkable
psychic ability to predict death by natural causes. Lucifer's ability is
used by Seff's gang to extract ransom from their rich victims. Seff
selects the victims and warns them of their impending death; any who do
not pay the ransom seemingly dies from natural causes, helped on their
way by Seff's executioner, Jack Wish.
By what means are the victims being killed? How is the ransom money being collected without trace from under the sea?
Modesty's
friend, Steve Collier, the renowned psychic researcher, is kidnapped to
help Seff but he accidentally blows Modesty's cover as she investigates
this mystery. Taken prisoner, Modesty and her faithful lieutenant,
Willie Garvin, must escape Seff's island stronghold in the third
installment of Peter O'Donnell's best-selling Modesty Blaise series.