Dan Sylvester, a former Continental Airlines pilot who now flies an amphibious plane he calls Bluebird, is in trouble again. This time with Penny Davies, a beautiful but baffling nurse sometimes angel, sometimes devil in the Azores, nine windswept Portuguese islands in mid-Atlantic. Hired as a pilot for a wealthy but ailing Don with three vineyards and two feuding sons, Dan tries to keep the winemaker's empire out of the hands of a cunning arms dealer with no scruples who seeks vengeance from his former partner for stealing money from him during WWII. Money they both earned smuggling guns in...

Dan and seventeen-year-old Noli agree to fly Alexis Maxwell, a former beauty queen, to Chios, her home island in Greece. There, the non-stop action begins as Dan and Noli find themselves inexorably dragged--at times, kicking and clawing--into the tumultuous land of Asia Minor--modern-day Turkey. The fishing boat captains aren't what they appear to be, and young girls are snatched from streets and spirited away to a former NATO command post that is a near impregnable underground fortress.

Turkey, is an exotic land filled with intrigue and ill-gotten pleasure, of belly dancers and crusader...

Dan Sylvester, a former Continental Airlines pilot who now flies an amphibious plane he calls Bluebird, is in trouble again. This time with Penny Davies, a beautiful but baffling nurse sometimes angel, sometimes devil in the Azores, nine windswept Portuguese islands in mid-Atlantic. Hired as a pilot for a wealthy but ailing Don with three vineyards and two feuding sons, Dan tries to keep the winemaker's empire out of the hands of a cunning arms dealer with no scruples who seeks vengeance from his former partner for stealing money from him during WWII. Money they both earned smuggling guns in...