Seven weeks hence, a American woman, Amanda Pym, faced straight down hijackers up to speed a flight to the center East and saved the lives greater than 2 hundred passengers. Inside a blaze of superstar, she stepped from the aircraft in Damascus and was whisked aside in a waiting around car. Since then, Nothing at all. The CIA is convinced she was kidnapped and murdered. Whose programs has the apparently ordinary young girl interfered with? The machinations of the mukhabarat, Syria’s dreaded police? The plans of cutthroat terrorists? Or has she simply eliminated into hiding? Masquerading as Amanda Pym’s worried aunt, Mrs. Pollifax begins her decided search, slipping through Damascus’ crooked streets and colorful, crowded souks, and trekking deep into the desert, wishing that rumor and whispers (which is usually all she has to be on) will lead her to the truth.