A politician’s lie leads to the biggest art heist in history. Ex-cop and art specialist John Kite is ordered to discover the truth, but in the corridors of power he finds no one to trust. His quest is even hampered by the police - who have their own axe to grind. Kite comes face to face with a killer from his own troubled past and finds a cool and beautiful bureaucrat has become his ally. Then his dramatic rescue of a girl facing certain death gives him a vital clue.... Leading him to a campaigner whose fight for right is in fact leading to disaster. Meanwhile a corrupt billionaire, chasing power, prepares a mammoth bonfire: what or whom is meant to burn on it? The Prime Minister’s own life comes under threat. Can Kite save him and his government?
A politician’s lie leads to the biggest art heist in history. Ex-cop and art specialist John Kite is ordered to discover the truth, but in the corridors of power he finds no one to trust. His quest is even hampered by the police - who have their own axe to grind. Kite comes face to face with a killer from his own troubled past and finds a cool and beautiful bureaucrat has become his ally. Then his dramatic rescue of a girl facing certain death gives him a vital clue.... Leading him to a campaigner whose fight for right is in fact leading to disaster. Meanwhile a corrupt billionaire, chasing power, prepares a mammoth bonfire: what or whom is meant to burn on it? The Prime Minister’s own life comes under threat. Can Kite save him and his government?