The Hanged Man

2/22/1975

The tower is the high skeletal framework above a power station under construction. Burnett and Crowe go back over the private airfield and the ashes of the plane crash that killed Burnett's wife.

3/1/1975

The Knave is an accountant in Locarno, protected by bodyguards and an electrified fence - the architect of embezzlement. And some of it is Burnett's money.

3/8/1975

The chariot drives across the coast of Scotland where North Sea oil and the land where it will devour conflict in a struggle for the world's highest stakes. This is where one of Burnett's ex-partners realised ambition when he bought a Highland estate and its lairdship.

3/15/1975

That's what they called Lew Burnett when he ran a contract in a totalitarian police state. If he goes back to find answers he will find himself accessory to corruption, under sentence of death, and will be chained to a prison wall.

3/22/1975

The polished practitioners of organised crime in Detroit learn that Burnett is alive and can still provide something they want.

3/29/1975

The laws are the tricky rules of high finance which Burnett has played all his commercial life and has to play again, on the run and under darkness.

4/5/1975

Tons of concrete are poured onto a motorway bridge - and the police want Crowe and Burnett for murder.