ABOUT THE BOOK

The sixth in the series of titles featuring Evan Michael Tanner. He is 34 years old and hasn't slept a wink since a piece of shrapnel destroyed the sleep centre in his brain during the Korean War. Tanner loves lost causes and beautiful women. The FBI has a thick file on him; the CIA taps his phone and a super-secret intelligence agency wants him to be their man!

How can Evan Tanner turn down the urgent plea of a mother in distress - especially when the mother has a daughter as beautiful as Phaedra Harrow? Phaedra has disappeared into the hands of white slave traders somewhere in the Afghan wilderness. And Tanner, it appears, has no choice but to find her...

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Wonderfully detailed and inspiring writing' - The London Guardian

'Block is one of the best' - Washington Post

'..if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship' - Vincent Banville, Irish Times

'A master of crime fiction' - Jonathan Kellerman