A love story—rich in imagination and suddenly fallen upon her head—carries young Victoria Jones far from home, to Baghdad, on the eve of events of worldwide importance. A secret summit of major countries will be held in Baghdad, but the secret is revealed, and fascist groups form a conspiracy in order to sabotage the event. Love and adventures, espionage and murders, archaeology and politics—everything intertwines in the novel by the great storyteller Lady Agatha!
The girl finds herself at the epicenter of a bloody political game staged by an organization of fanatics who are striving for power over the world. Victoria Jones discovers a dying British agent, Henry “the Fakir” Carmichael, in her hotel room; his last words—“Lucifer … Basra … Lafarj”—push her to investigate…