With bugs in her skin and noise in her head, Riz is real and the rest are fake. What matters to her: Mark Rothko''s art. So despite the horror of family time, it''s a fine thing that a major Rothko show coincides with the global conference where her so-called Dad is such a big wheel.Holed up with VIPs at a heavily guarded hotel, Riz collides with a sharp-dressed assassin she calls The Man. As she plunges into a world of covert deals and power plays, Riz is befriended and betrayed by Russian and Syrian agents. And emotionally bruised by the leader of a violent anti-capitalist group in town to protest the conference.Told in Riz''s breathless, insistent voice, the edgy friendship between the isolated teen and the travelling killer drives a thrill-ride through riot-torn London.