When Vera Napier agrees to accompany her great friend Emma Lyttelton on a visit to her uncle, the British ambassador to Egypt, she is looking for adventure, but even Vera is surprised at the adventure she discovers. Egypt, on the eve of World War II and the accession of the young, handsome, and sybaritic King Farouk, is a place of passion and plotting, a place perfectly suited to a beauty accustomed to enslaving every man she sees, including the king and the ambassador. Hardcover, 278 pages.