New York: Atheneum, 1972. dl. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Syria in 1970, three years after the Six Days War, and featuring a classic Ambler hero. Michael Howell was utterly apolitical, a Levantine of mixed origin who possessed profitable business enterprises throughout the Middle East and an Italian mistress who doubled as his office manager. And then one night in Damascus, he discovered that his factories had become the clandestine operations base of the Palestine Action Force, a fanatical terrorist organization set on destroying Israel. Suddenly, Howell is caught in the middle with nowhere to run. 307 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.