A novel of intrigue and espionage in Cairo and Alexandria during World War 2. Exciting, informative especially for history buffs, and erotic without exceeding the boundaries of good taste. The protagonists of this story include a rich Jewish financier from Alexandria with links to the Jewish Agency, a princess who leads a wild life after her beloved husband is killed in a car accident, a journalist and the narrator of this story, the son of a Pasha and former minister whose father is forced to resign by the British Occupying Power because of his Axis sympathies, an American who poses as reporter of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and whose wife is a nymphomaniac, and finally the Spycatcher Colonel Armstrong.