Superb, classic thriller from the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory, rated 'alongside Le Carre and Deighton' GUARDIAN
A brilliant young electronics expert is killed by a car bomb seemingly meant for the head of the Foreign Office's Middle-Eastern Section. Intelligence officer Hugh Roskill is sent by David Audley on an investigation that takes him from London clubland to the Hampshire countryside, and deep into the complexities of Middle Eastern politics, to find the answer to two questions: who was the real target of the bomb? And what is Alamut?
Against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the period before the Camp David Accords, Dr Audley and Colonel Butler are confronted with an assassin capable of turning the Middle Eastern conflict into Armageddon.
- ISBN10 0586200746
- ISBN13 9780586200742
- Publish Date 21 April 1988 (first published 3 June 1971)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 10 March 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Grafton
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English