The first Emma Makepeace book was a race to safety across a night time London landscape. This one is a more standard over-the-top spy thriller. Emma is sent undercover to serve drinks on the yacht of a Russian oligarch suspected of selling weapons. She's to find out who the oligarchs partners are and what they are up to.

A mostly fun book, but I did grow a little tired of Emma Makepeace ignoring the Agency's many directives to get out or not engage, lest she put herself in too much danger. "But I'm the only one who can find out!" so she sneaks in the hotel where the oligarch is going to meet. Or she goes to an oligaarch party after some of them might recognize her. You can plot an agent going against the book once or twice, but after that it starts to feel like lazy writing.