内容简介：
Chief DI Colin Thane and his second-in-command, DI Moss, regarded it as little more than an unpleasant routine when they were asked to identify the body of a salmon poacher. He had apparently blown himself up while illegally dynamiting a river pool. But two surprises await them: first, the dead man had a companion, now missing; second, the case has a connection with an assassination bid on a visiting politician from Moscow. Time is short and only" the man in the bottle" knows the truth.