Cairo 1917

He just fell into it.

Thomas Laurie was already much needed; a village policeman and an honourable man, he kept the peace at home, even in war.

Yet driven by conscience and filleted by the stares of strangers, he`d entered an army enlisting office in Worcester and jumped.

Now, owned by King and country he was thousands of miles from his wife`s love, holed up in a rat-infested carpet shop in a darkened Cairo backstreet, intent upon a plan.

Somewhere opposite within the gloom of a tired hostel was the spy. He and Corporal Nooney had become a great team. They would sort it, they always did.

But still the doubts nagged: Mildred Lowthian, his senior officer at the Arab Bureau, was unlike any woman he`d known, but she too seemed burdened by the duplicity of superiors. And the ignorance and disdain of those with power had shocked.

Who was he really helping?

At the same hour in her farmhouse on the island of Menorca, the formidable self-made landowner Llucia Quintana sat fearing for the safety of Oriol, her only son and heir. His routine trading trip to Cairo was to be his last; Mediterranean passage had become increasingly hostile and British control of the city unpredictable. He`d not made contact; but how could she rely upon the support of others, given her past?

In these colliding worlds a moving, tragicomic tale unfolds of adventure, conflict, trust and fairness. Surely we would learn?

There could be a better world?  

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