London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a comic thriller. "Interpreter Stavros de Battista is in Bangkok to work the World League of Parliaments annual conference and to meet his lover Christine, also an interpreter, at the meeting. A switched briefcase is the trigger for a fireworks display of murders, attempted murders, kidnapping, disappearances, and murky political intrigue that suddenly engulf the increasingly befuddled Stavros - who also has to contend with a series of ill-timed phone calls from his shrewish wife at home in Vienna." (Library Journal) 191 pp. ISBN: 0-340508906.