Craig decides to revisit Joss, a woman with whom he had a passionate affair some years back and who is now married to the newly arrived American ambassador to Malawi. Although they last parted vowing never to meet again, he is looking forward to seeing her. But he discovers she's been murdered and an impostor has taken her place at the ambassador's side. He has another mystery to unravel and in the process discovers he's had a daughter by Joss, who's in mortal danger. Racing to make sense of what happened to Joss and save his daughter, Tom is also solving the mystery of the string of murders, reportedly being committed by leopard-man.