Deception, fraud and murder - all in the name of US National Security. First, a State Department official is killed during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Years later, his boss, tracked down in the streets of Amsterdam, must be silenced. For Tony Britt, an Australian journalist, the tragedy of Cyprus was a story, but it all becomes personal when he is pursued from Turkey to London and the lives of colleagues and his friend Jo are threatened. Can he publish his story? Or will he be damned by the CIA and the British Foreign Office? Aphrodite"s island, basking in a strategic sea, is the main setting for this exposé of Western institutional methods. And they effect every one of us.