In this standalone sequel to the gay male espionage thriller, Last Call, CIA official "Clifford Clarke" retreats to the northern Cyprus castle harbor town known to the occupying Turks as Girne and to the displaced Greeks as Kyrenia to restore an old Turkish house above the harbor. An operation in Syria has gone very bad and his best agent and bed partner, Peter, has been executed. Steeped in grief and guilt at having lost Peter and having been involved in sending Peter to his death--on top of many other decisions Clarke has had to make that he regrets--Clarke throws himself into a house restoration project. He also sinks into an orgy lifestyle, seeking punishment and atonement through increasingly dangerous and ever rougher sex. The downward spiral starts mildly with his house carpenters and moves on to the sadistic neighbor and restaurant owner, Fuad Fikrit, whose dealings are very much on the shady side.As Clarke slides into self-destruction and increasingly rough and wanton sex, connections to the events that unfolded in Last Call creep in and indications start to appear that there's more going on beneath the surface of both his appearance in Cyprus and his apparent march toward oblivion.