It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just fi
nished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him
dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his ho
tel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanb
ul.
As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entrancing French dance
r, an unkempt trader, a mysterious German doctor and a small, brutal man in a cr
umpled suit - he enters a nightmarish world where friend and foe are indistingui
shable. Graham can try to run, but he may not be able to hide for much longer!
