A mix-up on the Cambridge Express snowballs into a desperate race for survival on the Mongolian steppes. But the quest for revenge leads back home.
What has happened to Charlie Robinson? No-one seems to know … and everybody who wants to find out seems to be in peril.
A motley collection of geeks, loners and outcasts are chased eastward by mysterious foes, only to discover that — with their backs against the wall — they are more resourceful than they could ever have imagined.
A mystery thriller set in Cambridge, London, Venice and Ulaanbaatar with lashings of cryptography, technology, cartography and Alexandre Dumas.