The Cauldron

The body of a girl, washed ashore on the Californian coast, is found by Paula Grey. Weeks later, another body floats into the rugged coast of Cornwall, discovered by Bob Newman. Shown a photograph, Paula is stunned to realize it is the same dead woman she hauled out of the water six thousand miles away. Sensing a worldwide menace, Tweed is tracking the movements of Vincent Bernard Moloch, creator of AMBECO, the largest conglomerate on the planet. Why are strange dome-shaped buildings appearing on summits overlooking the ocean off California? Why have all of Moloch's previous lady-friends been murdered? What links English expatriates settled in California with a similar community in Cornwall? A tremor of international crisis paralyzes London and Washington as Tweed and his team struggle to detect its source...