Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend  Alistair Haston heads off to Greece  where she is on holiday  to try and rekindle their relationship.   On the ferry from Athens he is offered a lucrative job  recruiting tourists to pose for and  he later discovers  to sleep with  Heinrich a wealthy and charismatic  German artist Swept away on a tide of wild parties  wild sex  fine food and drugs Haston sheds his reserve and throws himself headlong into the pursuit of pleasure.  Until  a body is found and the finger of blame points to Haston.  His world collapses. Arrested but allowed to escape  the body count piles up and Halston finds himself on the run by land and sea on a journey more breathtaking and more frightening than his wildest dreams.