About the book: 2008 / A candidate for mayor of a small English town on the eve of the elections turns to a private detective he knows for help in exposing a blackmailer. Sam Quarry takes on the job without much reluctance, especially since in pursuit of the criminal he has to go on a cruise, sharing a cabin with an unfamiliar and very strange person. Who will be the stubborn fellow traveler, whom Sam is forced to pass off as his wife: an ally or an enemy? And what secrets will the investigation on board the ship reveal??