Piracies

Pepyeses Island cannot exist. It appears on no map, is hidden from satellite surveillance and has even slipped outside the Earth's 24 time zones. Yet Dr. Felix Culpepper, one of the world's most in-demand assassins-for-hire (when not teaching classics at St Wygyfortis's College Cambridge), is standing on this imaginary land, while the Governor-General, in plumed helmet, welcomes him in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. For what purpose has the British Establishment hidden this fragment of Empire for 200 years? Does it hold the key to a terrorist plot of unparalleled malevolence? And will Felix be allowed to leave with this knowledge - or his life?