Then comes John Bristow, who tells him a disturbing storey about his sister, the iconic supermodel Lula Landry, also known as the Cuckoo, who famously died a few months before. The authorities concluded that it was a suicide, but John isn’t convinced. Strike is thrust into a world of multimillionaire beauty, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and he is exposed to every type of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and deception known to man as a result of the case.