Frame-Up

Cecilia Walker, B.Sc. in computer science, MBA, intelligent, ambitious, an expert in karate, the token female in a London firm of stockbrokers, her successful trading raising the jealousy of her male colleagues. Heeding a rumor that Sanvino will lose their largest airline supply contract, she advises her major Italian client to offload the shares, only to discover a day later that, on the contrary Sanvino, has gained another even more lucrative contract. As a result, its shares rise 20 percent. Her advice deprived her client of a two million-pound capital gain. Has she been misled deliberately or was she simply the butt of a malicious joke? She is fired from her job, accused of illegal share trading, and arrested. When a mafioso, sent by the Italian client, threatens to harm her little stepsisters unless she refunds the client, she uses her computer science and karate skills in daring stratagems to discover the real culprit.