Jack Tanner, recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital, is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action. But the murky world of deceit and murder they find themselves in is a million miles away from the certainties of the...

Jack Tanner, recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital, is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action. But the murky world of deceit and murder they find themselves in is a million miles away from the certainties of the battlefield.