Academic and adventurer Bernice Summerfield has always taken a dim view of grave robbers and thieves.

It's the kind of thing that makes life difficult when you're friends with one of the galaxy's most wanted criminals. A situation that gets even more complicated when that criminal's other half is the father of your son.

A mess of twisted relationships like that needs sorting.

The ideal method would be group therapy and a nice long cup of tea. Unfortunately, a raid on an impregnable location governed by a sociopathic mastermind where one false move means death is all they've got time for.