For agent Duke Pirak, the coded text message on his phone is brief and to the point: "Go to Egypt to document militant link between Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood." At age sixty-two, Duke is still considered a viable agent. His first trip to Cairo was nine years ago, and he is eager to return-and possibly find his former lover, Sandi. After finding her, a young Bedouin girl enters their life. When she is taken by her gangster father to the Sinai Peninsula, Duke and Sandi have to rescue her from being sold as a sex slave. Duke's two assignments become intrinsically linked through the politics of.