First published in This Week, October 17, 1965.
The Messenger is the name given to the once British now Arab recluse who for the past 20 years has lived a life of a hermit in the deserts of North Africa. Now he has come out of seclusion and Section Q is certain the man has been murdered and replaced by a phony to turn that country's people against America's new base in the nation. Selena Mead is asked to fly there to learn what she can.