David Cobbington's high profile job with The Jockey Club of South Africa draws him into a webof deceit and complicity, pitting him against a man who will induce the ultimate destruction of hiscomfortable, affluent life. Anton Medli is the man who becomes David's perfidious and relentlessnemesis. The unctuous Corsican is a man for whom thoroughbred racing is both a business and apleasure and whose only philosophy is money. Known in racing circles as The Meddler, heengineers not only the demolition of David's quiet gentlemanly existence, but eventually the livesof both his brother, Kit, and their influential andwealthy father.The action shifts from the dusty highveldt of Johannesburg, to the wild, blond savannah ofKenya and, finally, to the neon smeared metropolis of Hong Kong. The choices that the twobrothers make, whether recklessly, blindly or judiciously are irrevocable and David becomestrapped in a moral maze when both he and his brother step beyond the boundaries of the law. Thedenouement comes as a shocking and thought-provoking twist in this riveting story of a doomedfamily, whose integrity and tenets are shattered by the provocations of Anton Medli and hiscohorts.