Mayfair, London. A middle-aged banker enters a secret place where he likes to relax, swathed in bandages: briefly mummified. This time he fails to wake up. His unexpected death sets in motion a chain of events, culminating in the poisoning of a beautiful, Muslim undergraduate. Her brother asks a rookie P.I., Rebecca, who’s suffered her own recent traumas, to investigate. He believes the police to be racist and under pressure from the college to dismiss his sister’s death as accidental. She ingested ricin from castor oil seeds in a set of prayer beads and died in her locked college room.
Meanwhile, Ishii, a seven year old Japanese boy, is abandoned by his Yakuza father to a trafficker at Heathrow, when the father leaves the country. Ishii desperately tries to escape the man he thinks of as `Fatty’ and phones his tutor from the airport. His tutor tells him he’s being fanciful, but the call is cut short by Fatty. Ishii wakes to find himself chained up in a basement. He manages to decipher the coded email from his tutor to his father, asking for a message from Ishii, and sends a careful reply. The tutor contacts Rebecca’s website for help in finding Ishii, but is killed before he can speak to her. A dwarf sex slave puts herself in danger to help Ishii, but disappears before their escape plan can be put into action.
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