"In the dusty outskirts of Tashkent, as terrorists plan their next outrage, Peter Sinclair, businessman and occasional agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6, plans his own recruitment of a highly placed spy in the Uzbek government.
As Sinclair weaves from London to Tashkent and Bukhara, his path crosses that of a Christian mission rescuing young women from a traffic in human misery that stretches from Central Asia to the fleshpots of Western Europe. But something seems amiss. The mission seems wrongly connected to the United States Embassy, and consequently its young workers, particularly two women, vulnerable."