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In London , petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change of employer is going to be to her advantage. An ill-advised fling with her boss is causing her embarrassment at work, particularly now that he has a new born child. An offer of a job that would take her out to Mexico to do a report on an off-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to miss. In Mexico Inspector Cortez is languishing in Port Luz in the back of beyond, sent in disgrace from his post in the city. He knows that he’s not - and never has been - corrupt but no one else believes him. In fact it’s seen as normal. Then a body appears on the beach and the local fishermen point out into the gulf and tell him that it came from there. When he looks more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigs.
You ease in gently, sharing Catherine’s anguish as she overhears her boss’s telephone conversations with his newborn (yes - you read that correctly...) or Cortez’ frustration with the corruption in the police station in Port Luz - and even sympathise with his wife’s resentment that she and their two daughters have been forced to leave the city for this ‘’backwater’’. And so it might have continued but for the body. He was a UK oil worker, experienced on the Scottish rigs, but why does no one seem to want to get to the bottom of the disappearance? In Port Luz they’re more bothered about not upsetting the people who’re bringing much needed money into the small town and the police chief would prefer that Cortez spends his time supporting the family of a soap star who has been kidnapped from a luxury hotel.
