This Cold war thriller is a triumph from Helen MacInnes. American art expert, Colin Grant, has been sent to Vienna to bid on a priceless painting by Dutch Master Ruysdael on behalf of a Texas millionaire. His instructions are to get the painting at any cost but to keep the buyers name a secret. No sooner does Grant land in Austria than his seemingly simple task turns in to a monumental nightmare as he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy to unleash a wave of international terrorism...