Mick Murphy has to find his cousin Cecil Fahey, an ex-IRA gunman, to answer questions about Cecil's involvement with forged art. The quest takes him from tropical Key West, Florida, to smoggy Los Angeles, crowded New Jersey and Dublin, Ireland before returning to the tropics. Along the way his life is threatened by British SAS soldiers, MI6 agents, Cuban gunmen and to survive he must figure out who his friends are and why so many different people want Cecil and him dead.