Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to
Connaught Square mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies
huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the
beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the
shadow of suspicion. Pitt's orders are to protect--at all costs--the
good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister
Saville Ryerson. The distinguished public servant, whispered to be
Ayesha's lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself. Pitt's
journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to
the insidious London slum called Seven Dials--and ultimately to a packed
London courtroom in which shocking secrets will at last be revealed.