One longs to see what the Floria Toscas will get up to next. -- Sunday Times What could possibly be the connection between a small itinerant opera company, the Lord Mayor of London, and an international assassin bent on revenge? As George Sinclair's hastily reassembled Floria Tosca Grand Opera Company prepares to present La Traviata in London's Mansion House, in the presence of the Lord Mayor, they have little idea of the meaning of the threats or the blood and death that will flow from their performance. And when London's Special Branch and Interpol together can't trace the killer, how can George hope to do better?