The year, 1982; the place, Tunis. Dominic Erbury is reeling from the collapse of his marriage. Out of the blue, he receives a letter from Emma, the young Englishwoman he fell in love with five years before in Egypt. He reacts to the letter like a drowning man grasping hold of a lifebelt. Switching from Tunis to London, to Oxford, to France, and back, we follow Dominic's erratic progress of the heart, while wars in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands, and the Lebanon bring pain to his family, his friends, and himself.'This sequel to Bower's In Love in Alexandria, will move, intrigue, and disturb you.''Where North meets South, in bed and in war.''The ties that bind in troubled times.' Jonathan Bower was born and educated in Ireland. He has worked in the Arab world in radio, TV, films and journalism. He now divides his time between Ireland, Provence, and North Africa. Impasse in Tunis is his third novel.