Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages show minimal wear. Cover has crease bottom right front. 264 pages. Published by Methuen London, 1985. ISBN 0413566803.

What connection is there between the attempted blowing up of the US President's plane after a state visit to London and the potential unlocking of a source of oil bigger than Saudi Arabia? And what does either event matter to John Morpurgo, discredited MI5 spy-catcher now demoted to SIS nobody?

Disentangling truth from multiple falsehoods, Morpurgo, "the spy in the wrong school tie", finds himself in conflict not only with a legendary assassin and the deviousness of his new boss, Epworth, but also the ruthless self-interest of the CIA. Only during a lethal climax in Southern Spain is he given a chance to salvage his discredited reputation.