My Brother Michael

[1] Camilla Haven has recently broken her engagement to Philip and is holidaying on her own in Greece.

She is sitting in a cafe in Athens writing to her friend Elizabeth, expressing insecurity in dealing with travel having been accustomed over 5 years to her ex-fiancé’s handling arrangements, when a man appears with a message about a hired car for Delphi.

Under the pretext of finding out who “Simon” is who needs the car so urgently, she leaves her hotel address with the café's proprietor and sets out to drive the car to Delphi herself On the way she meets Simon Lester.

Michael Lester had been a British Liaison Officer to the Greek partisan group ELAS, and had written a letter home hinting at a significant discovery.

Some of the ruthless antagonists involved in theft, smuggling, and murder during the occupation of Greece in the war have now menacingly re-emerged on the scene.