The second book featuring the author's hero, Common Smith, VC. Spring, 1922. The Greek Army is in full retreat from Turkey, which it invaded the previous year. Turkish leader, Kemal Attaturk, plans the genocide of the Greek minority in his country, which in turn will encourage similar massacres of Turkish minorities in Bulgaria, Greece and Jugoslavia. Only Germany and Russia stand to benefit from the resultant chaos in the Near East and the Balkans - something Britain's MI6 cannot allow to happen. Only one man stands a chance of preventing such an outcome - Common Smith, VC.