"Slade McGinty had no illusions about Aristos Constantine when he accepted his commission to trace an employee, Phillip Bettley - a scientist who had vanished while visiting a remote Greek island. Slade suspected that he was being used as the fall guy in some sinister scheme. In Athens he learns that Bettley has been associated with the glamorous Cora, daughter of Jason Gipp, an agent for the bloody international armaments dealers."