The disappearance of a British intelligence agent at the height of World War II sparks a desperate manhunt through the treacherous shadows of a battle-scarred Middle EastOliver Enwin was a valuable member of the British intelligence community in the Middle East in those dark days at the onset of the Second World War.
The accidental killing of a poacher on an ex-British Army officer's land embroils him in an insidious international conspiracyRoger Taine purchased the shooting rights on 450 acres of Dorset farmland in order to commune with nature and secure fresh game for his family's dinner table.
By the author of Rogue Male, one of the classic thrillers of the twentieth century: a bestseller that redefined its genre Guardian Geoffrey Household returns to the rural England of Rogue Male and Watcher in the Shadows, with the savage hunting of his two heroes from the estuaries of South Devon to the empty Marlborough Downs.
Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople.