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.
