Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A crime novelist has found the perfect
subject - but it may cost him his life English writer Charles Latimer is travelling in
Istanbul when a police inspector tells him about the infamous master criminal Dimitrios long
wanted by the law whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Immediately fascinated
Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios' steps across Europe to gather material for a new book
but instead finds himself descending into a terrifying underworld of international espionage
Balkan drug dealers unscrupulous businessmen and fatal treachery - one he may not be able to
escape.