Jim Rogers once had everything: a successful career, a beautiful woman, a Manhattan penthouse and more money than he knew what to do with. He realised that the prostitute he'd just been with had stolen his wallet. Though it wasn't the money he was worried

Former foreign correspondent Charles Mortimer is all washed up, living a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan. A chance discovery of a newspaper obituary takes him back to the beginning of his career, when he was reporting from the Sahara Desert in the com