'I want you to do a job for me during the Easter vacation. Not such a colourful job, though it may have its excitements. But it's a job that means a hell of a lot to me.'
Drexel wanted me and that was enough. I said, 'I'll do it.'
And so David Fraser is lured back into the world of espionage where men, lives and morals are sacrificed without a qualm. His errand turns from the commonplace into a nightmare as a sinister power-struggle for control of Arab oil corrupts even the incorruptible
'Victor Canning is one of the world's finest story-tellers' Good Housekeeping
'Right at the top of the thriller-writing tree? Castle Minerva not only brilliantly entertains; it satisfies.' The Sunday Times
