"The Prince is somewhere in Europe, gambling, wrenching, drugging himself to death. He must be found at once and brought here. And the woman Zoraya must not be allowed to interfere."

The other man grinned. "Can she make a corpse walk home?"
"So be it then. Kill him."
"And if the Americans interfere?"
"Eliminate whomever they send."

They sent Durell - a marked man, wanted by half a dozen governments and half a hundred paid killers. They sent Durell - who lured the exotic Zoraya from her secret golden villa, kidnapped the besotted, degenerate prince from under the noses of assassins, and plowed into the middle of a plot that in 96 hours would shake the world.

The man called the Q'adi was a religious zealot who wanted to start a jihad to drive the infidels out of his beloved country of Jidrat. Colonel Ta-arife was a leader who wanted to become the leader of more than just a small Emirate. Together they could tear the Middle East apart.