'I want you to do a job for me during the Easter vacation. Not such a colourful job, though it may have its excitements. But it's a job that means a hell of a lot to me.' Drexel wanted me and that was enough. I said, 'I'll do it.' And so David Fraser is lured back into the world of espionage where men, lives and morals are sacrificed without a qualm. His errand turns from the commonplace into a nightmare as a sinister power-struggle for control of Arab oil corrupts even the incorruptible