Ricin! Drones! Alk Qaeda! Suicide bombers! The stuff in today's headlines is accented in this novel about a teacher of English in a private boys school in Istanbul, Mehmet, who has a long standing association to a terrorist, Ali Bin Shah R. Turkish intelligence and the CIA force him into becoming a double agent. His handler, Josie, teaches him the craft of spying and in the process he teaches her lessons on love. But in the end who will Mehmet betray, his friend or the woman he has come to care for. From the cobblestoned streets of Istanbul to the back alleys in Yemen, to plots against the Paris Metro and the American embassy in Madrid, this page turner simply doesn't quit.