Castle Minerva — Victor Canning

'I want you to do a job for me during the Easter vacation. Not such a colourful job, though it may have its excitements. But it's a job that means a hell of a lot to me.'

Drexel wanted me and that was enough. I said, 'I'll do it.'

And so David Fraser is lured back into the world of espionage where men, lives and morals are sacrificed without a qualm. His errand turns from the commonplace into a nightmare as a sinister power-struggle for control of Arab oil corrupts even the incorruptible.

'Victor Canning is one of the world's finest story-tellers' Good Housekeeping

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