Strange Police

A Greek billionaire is in the final stages of planning the greatest and most audacious robbery of modern times - the theft of the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum, to be returned to the Parthenon in Athens.Alan Rosslyn, special investigator for the intelligence and security advisors Campbell and Menzies Tunim, is mixing business and pleasure in Greece, where he has fallen in love with his client, Cleo Ipsilanti. On the eve of his reluctant departure to London she is the victim of a murderous attack and Rosslyn, who finds himself the chief suspect, is spirited out of Greece by the British Secret Intelligence Service. He discovers that a powerful clique within SIS is actively encouraging the attempt on the Marbles. Why? And what is the reason for bringing Rosslyn into the conspiracy and killing his lover?