Following on from Fields of Destruction, in Baptism of Fire we meet again disabled Vietnam veteran David Salters, Malcolm Ross and his friends Andrew Campbell and Saul Golding, and are swept back into the murky world of corruption, revenge and Cold War intrigue.
On the home front, relationships have developed and domesticity beckons. But then Mike Preston crashes in his cargo plane and nothing is quite the same. While a new challenge is presented to the amateur sleuths, Malcolm Ross's past comes back to haunt and threaten them all.