This is a refreshing return to the hardboiled edge,of detective fiction and a great example of the,international mystery. Middle-aged private eye,Christomos Zaras, is hired by a whisky smuggler to,find a missing thief and a lost fortune. Leaving,his native Greece for the tension-filled shores of,Cyprus, Zaras immediately seeks out the island's,underworld. His only link to this underground,network is the beautiful and elusive Lena,secretary and mistress to the mob. Zaras is soon,uncovering a plot involving Greek mobsters, drug,trafficking, corrupt officials and murderous Turks