A brilliantly artistic young girl goes missing in London and a journalist undergoing a personal and moral crisis, chances upon her aunt - his first great love. They resurrect their affair and seek to find out who kidnapped the child. The answer is hidden within a cabal of spies, arms dealers and corrupt politicians whose narcotic lust for power and profit rules all. The Convenience of Lies is a taut, slow-burn literary thriller set against actual events in the weeks after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990.