Hannay and his friend Sandy convalescing from wounds received at the Battle of Loos. Hannay is summoned to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior intelligence man, whom Hannay met and assisted in The Thirty-Nine Steps. Bullivant gives Hannay an outline of the political situation in the Middle East, and hints that the Germans and their Turkish allies are plotting to cause a great uprising throughout the Muslim world, that will throw the whole of the Middle East, India and North Africa into turmoil; Bullivant proposes that Hannay takes on the task of investigating rumours. The only clue he is given is a slip of paper left by a spy, Bullivant's own son, recently killed in the region, bearing the words Kasredin, cancer and v. I.

Media	Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg)
Utgitt	10. november 2015
ISBN13	9781519192912
Utgivere	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Antall sider	242
Mål	152 × 229 × 13 mm · 326 g
Språk	Engelsk