On the island of Corfu, a British spy is dead and his double-agent is missing. Investigator Lucas Grant needs to find out what the hell's going on, before it’s too late.

Only two miles across the sea lies Albania, where the secretive and brutal Hoxha communist regime guards its independence - and strategically invaluable naval bases - against the Soviet Union and NATO alike. Has the KGB found a way to change the balance of power?

Landing on the unfamiliar island, Grant enlists the help of the local field agent - the dead man's lover - and uncovers a sinister, complex plot that threatens to turn the tide of the Cold War in Europe.

Praise for Kenneth Benton

“Benton is one of those leisurely Englishmen who has a civilised, cultured style, and who knows how to get the reader involved in a complicated chess game of competing secret agencies.”
--New York Times Book Review, 1973

“It is agreeable in any book, more particularly, for some reason, in a thriller, to be able to say, ‘Clearly this chap knows what he is talking about. He is allowing us into a private kingdom of which he has the key.’ As with Dick Francis in the world of racing or Emma Lathen in the world of Wall Street (the latter ‘chap’ being two nice American ladies), so with Kenneth Benton in what is now comprehensively called the Foreign Service.”
-- Michael Gilbert, CBE, novelist and founder-member of the Crime Writers' Association

“Of those [ex-MI6 novelists] that neatly bridged the gap between fact and fiction in the British intelligence community, among the most elegant was Kenneth Benton.”
-- Nigel West, ‘Fiction, Faction and Intelligence‘, Intelligence and National Security