'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century..he brought something undeniably new to fiction'
- Daily Telegraph
Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople . As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies...
'A tour de force .... splendidly written... exciting'
- L. P. Hartley
'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century..he brought something undeniably new to fiction'
- Daily Telegraph
Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople . As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies...
'A tour de force .... splendidly written... exciting'
- L. P. Hartley