On the lonian island of Hyos, where James Pibble has been sent to protect millionaire Thanassi Thanatos, it is difficult to know what is true. Is there really a lizard that will poison you if it drowns in your milk? Is the man from the Home Office there to kill? Or to save? Or just to play cricket with the local boys under local rules? Why does the grubby English girl live in a hut in a vineyard? She has a mysterious past, true. But then so has everyone else, and most of them have mysterious presents as well ...
- ISBN10 0586038973
- ISBN13 9780586038970
- Publish Date 16 May 1974 (first published 14 February 1972)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English