The action begins in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where thirty-something engineer Terry Wallingford has just lost his job, but doesnÕt want to give up the good life of an American expat worker in Saudi Arabia. When a distinguished Saudi fellow invites him to a meeting in a smart downtown Riyadh hotel and offers him an unusual, but extremely lucrative, opportunity, he finds he canÕt refuse it. ThatÕs where TerryÕs adventure begins, but it ends in the mountainous no man's land between Pakistan and Afghanistan.