Dimensions
111 x 178 x 26mm
For Paul Cartwright, a young English mining engineer, the quest begins at the huge Black Sea port of Constantza. After the killing of a member of the secret police, he is forced to escape by way of the Danube Delta, in the company of a strange young woman.
The horror of her past life is poured out as they lie side-by-side through a night storm on an island of reeds. There also gradually emerges a picture of Vicki, her mysterious, domineering sister - known as "the Little Sultana". Years previously, Cartwright had first encountered Vikki as a little girl dancing alone in front of a captivated restaurant. His own feet responding to the beat, the two of them had met occasionally over the years - dancing their way into a hidden world now about to prove most deadly dangerous.
Is Vikki really the daughter of a sultan? Where is the realm she claims for her own? Above all, what is the hidden wealth that now draws the Russian Mafia into the search? Mystery will continue to dog Cartwright's footsteps through the Khyber Pass and up to the 'lost' fastness of the Pamirs. And, though the way ahead seems suicidal, somewhere in those towering mountains must lie the answers.
