Marti Holland, an economics advisor who works at the UN is sitting in a lobby, minding her own business, waiting for her roommate to accompany her to a reception when she overhears a conversation that changes her life. Someone is planning to assassinate a sheikh. She immediately puts two and two together and gets Sheikh Hikmat who is due to speak at the UN in two weeks on the subject of peace in the Middle East. She immediately reports what she has heard to a guard, and goes in search of the speaker, a tall, sandy-haired man in a tan suit.

She finds Gideon Sanders, an Israeli film director in New York working on a movie about an assassination at the UN. Though she feels a bit foolish, Marti can’t help feeling that there is more to Gideon than he is willing to reveal. When a French diplomat plunges to his death from the same hotel at which Gideon is staying, she becomes more suspicious.

Someone out there believes that Marti has some important information, and an anonymous telephone call and a break-in at her apartment are the beginning of the scare tactics used by the villain. Is putting her trust in Gideon a mistake that could prove fatal, or is he one of the good guys? ( )