Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA 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.