David Brierley was born in 1936 in Durban, South Africa. He has also lived in Canada, England, France and Greece. Travel is in his bones. After taking a degree at Oxford, he worked as a teacher at a French lycée and then in advertising in London, which is when the first of 13 novels were published. He lives in England with his wife Jill in a small town with a name that always raises a smile: Chipping Sodbury.
Cody is an ex-spy living in Paris who is hired by a wealthy businessman to find the people responsible for the murder of his wife and the kidnapping of his adopted, Romanian daughter. Her mission pits against corrupt police officers, old enemies in French Intelligence, and a ruthlessly violent European crime syndicate in the fight of her life.